The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit. – Tom Petty
Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we’d get all that music. – Zach Braff
Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists. – Stewart Copeland
Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic. – Vivian Campbell
Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure. – Stephen Sondheim
I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people’s imaginations. – Sampha
The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these ’50s and ’60s tapes, tapes of that music. – Zac Hanson
We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design. – Steve Albini
It’s a really diverse time in music, with all these different DJs and all these different categories, and we are all taking footnotes from everyone else. There are no real genre boundaries anymore; you can take a trance idea and put it into a trap record – it’s not that uncommon. – Steve Aoki
When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music. – Tom Petty
I was always artistic – right from childhood – but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music. – Sean Scully
Well, I don’t think it ever did, but in the early ’60s I got interested in folk music. – Warren Zevon
Solange’s new album, ‘A Seat at the Table’, is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music. – Tavi Gevinson
If I was a carpenter, and I was trying to maintain my father’s musical legacy, then I guess it would be a burden because it wouldn’t be natural to me to be dealing in music when my natural ability is in woodwork or whatever. But because my natural talent is also music, it kind of makes it much easier. – Stephen Marley
I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me. – Victoria de los Angeles
This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing – he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music. – Victoria de los Angeles
Theatre is about the collective imagination… Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text – but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV. – Simon McBurney
It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‘I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.’ – Taylor Swift
When this genre of music started in America, Metallica was up north in California, we were in Southern California, Anthrax was on the East Coast. We each developed our own metal music, and after 30 years, we’re still playing our metal music. – Tom Araya
There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I’d always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him. – Teena Marie
Maybe it’s the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice. – Wim Wenders
I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It’s my fascination, my ongoing passion. – Siobhan Fahey
I have a day job Monday to Friday. I work at a record label in Brooklyn called Ba Da Bing. It’s a great indie label and I listen to music all day. I meet people online and find out about the cool new music blogs. – Sharon Van Etten
I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas – it’s always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal. – Youssou N’Dour
Music doesn’t have to have lyrics; it doesn’t have to be a particular type of music – it has the ability to bring out really strong and hopefully good emotional reactions in people. – Tom Scholz