I’ve managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me – music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It’s all about ideas. – Gordon Getty
He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music. – Herb Alpert
I don’t view myself as a musician anymore – I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I’m functioning as a musician, but that’s not 24 hours a day. That’s really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being. – Herbie Hancock
A lot of kids have parents who say, ‘Music is hard; maybe you should come up with a Plan B.’ Whenever I hear that kind of ‘advice,’ I think it’s bad parenting. I was lucky to have a parent who assured me it was a possibility to pursue music. – Gerald Clayton
Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings. – Howard Shore
I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He’s so rebellious, so subversive. I mean, for a musician, seriously, could you find a more predictable stance than that? He’s as edgy as a hacky sack, which also describes his music. – Greg Gutfeld
I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don’t feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock. – Hayley Williams
Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs. – Gotye
I’ve never worried about how a new release will be received. I simply try to do the best I can and leave the rest to the gods. The music industry in those terms is something I loathe and detest. It conjures up images of a gigantic factory spewing out parts of the machine. – Gerry Rafferty
When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music. – Henry Flynt
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions. – Henry Rollins
What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience. – Henry Rollins
When I play music, I realize that it filters emotions. I believe that peoples’ voices are expressed in their emotions, and I try to do the same with my music. – Hiromi Uehara
The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way. – Herbie Hancock
There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there’s not, so it’s really easy to get huge, empty spaces where you can practice and make music or make art for very, very cheap. – Grimes
You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you’re 25. To me it’s embarrassing. – Grace Slick
My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they’re not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music. – Helen Reddy
I don’t believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it’s not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o’clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music. – Gunter Grass
I was a student at Harvard, and that’s where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time. – Henry Flynt
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms. – Henry Flynt
Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that’s the part that’s both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I’m losing money. – Hilary Rosen
