“When you make music or write or create, it's really
your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless
sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. ”
– Lady Gaga
“I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
“There’s nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do
is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.”
– Johann Sebastian Bach
“Master your instrument. Master the music.
And then forget all that bullshit and just play.”
– Charlie Parker
“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question
of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really
mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer.
On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle
on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right
music very loud on the radio.”
– Hunter S. Thompson
“I can’t stand Beyoncé.”
- Etta James
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
– Tom Waits
“Music is the strongest form of magic.”
– Marilyn Manson
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
– Frank Zappa
“The only truth is music.”
– Jack Kerouac
“Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most
part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives
that they have heard it.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.”
– Ani DiFranco
“Listen, sonny, I was writing before you were a glint on your father’s dick.
Don’t you tell me how to write songs.”
- Keith Richards (to some figure in the music business)
“To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins.
Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?”
– Michael Jackson
“The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem
to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very
shortly you discover that there is no reason.”
- John Cage
“At least I’m not opening for a cunt like Kanye.”
- Amy Winehouse
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