Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say. – Kristin Hersh
I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers. – Jam Master Jay
I always want to write erotic music… Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense – about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe… about life. – Toru Takemitsu
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words. – Felix Mendelssohn
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man. – Ray Charles
Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor. – Ray Charles
I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there. – Adam Lambert
I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds. – Adam Lambert
People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words. – Felix Mendelssohn
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar. – Adam Lambert
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. – Archie Shepp
High school music teachers… nobody makes a living off it. – David Ogden Stiers
Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts. – Shaun White
Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up. – Rainn Wilson
Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain. – John Mayer
I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible. – John Mayer
Music became a healer for me. – Eric Clapton
But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not. – Eric Clapton
The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. – Fiona Apple
Music is what our feelings sound like. – Vera Farmiga
