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“You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me. ”
— Christina Aguilera
“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. ”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. ”
— Kurt Cobain
“How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.”
— Johnny Depp
“This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. ”
— Bob Dylan
“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. ”
— Bob Dylan
“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. ”
— Bob Dylan
“Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. ”
— Bob Dylan
“I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow. ”
— Bob Dylan
“Folk music is a bunch of fat people. ”
— Bob Dylan
“Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now. ”
— Bob Dylan
“You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. ”
— Bob Dylan
“You are the music while the music lasts. ”
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
“If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music. ”
— Clint Eastwood
“My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over. ”
— Clint Eastwood
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
— Maya Angelou
“Music is a safe kind of high.”
— Jimi Hendrix
“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.”
— Jimi Hendrix
“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”
— Jimi Hendrix
“Music is my religion.”
— Jimi Hendrix
“The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.”
— Jimi Hendrix
“I try to use my music to move these people to act.”
— Jimi Hendrix
“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.”
— Jimi Hendrix
“Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.”
— Jimi Hendrix
“Music inflames temperament.”
— Jim Morrison
“I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.”
— Mick Jagger
“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”
— Stanley Kubrick
“I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.”
— Paul McCartney
“Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.”
— Paul McCartney
“My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.”
— Paul McCartney
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