Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten. – Henry Flynt
My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don’t like, out of natural antipathy amplified by a sort of malicious glee. – Gregory Maguire
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism. – Harrison Birtwistle
I have a very strong identity that connects me to Argentina and to Latin America, but at the same time, I have a deep connection to the music from the United States and music from Europe, too. – Gustavo Santaolalla
I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They’re the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa. – Grimes
My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the ‘Pata Pata’ album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice. – Henry Rollins
I’ve always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn’t come out of my room for years after that. I’d get invited to the movies and I’d say, ‘I’m gonna finish a couple of demos.’ – Hunter Hayes
When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that’s fine, but we don’t need to see you do a ‘Schindler’s List,’ where there’s no jokes or music or comedic through-line. – Hill Harper
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets – we remember only. – Henry Miller
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It’s a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people. – Herbie Hancock
Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There’s a connection because there’s a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in. – Hunter Hayes
I’m really open-minded, musically. The credo I ascribe to is, ‘Take care of the music, and let the rest take care of itself.’ Growing up, I was a sponge and soaked up everything I was exposed to. – Gerald Clayton
Every season, I absorb everything around m:, the people I see on the street, the discos, the art, the music, and the energy of places from my travels. I mix all of this together, and then I begin to create. – Giuseppe Zanotti
Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage. – Henry Rollins
The point is to almost be child-minded, like you’re discovering music for the first time, every time you play. – Gerald Clayton
People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy. – Gerry Mulligan
Every time I tried writing my own songs, they would come out very country. I couldn’t fight it, and the more I listened to country music, the more I loved it, and it just became very natural. – Hayley Orrantia
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. – Henri Frederic Amiel
I have no doubt that there are great people about though… the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams). – Gary Lucas
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. – Herbie Hancock
Everything has gotten less expensive. Digitization has made content, whether it’s print or music, less costly. Today, anyone can read the news for free online. – Hubert Burda
People are doing what they can these days and looking for creative ways to sell music. – Greg Laswell
When I’m on tour, I’m in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff. – Hilary Duff
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. – Henry David Thoreau
I’ve always described my taste in fashion and music as being very eclectic and uniquely based off my feelings that day. That’s the wonderful thing about style. You can be whatever you want to be. You can describe yourself however you want to describe yourself. – Hayden Panettiere
It’s a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don’t have to have wall-to-wall music in good films. – Gustavo Santaolalla
One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed. – Henry Rollins
