“That’s why I make music, because I wanna hear it. That’s the shit I wanna party to, you know?”— Charli XCX, ssense.com
“First and foremost, I’m one of those who believe music is something that really does good for people in general. If you start thinking about it, like if we’re sad, we often listen to a song.”— Daniel Ek, startups.co
“I believe art is objective, and that time is the truth-teller of quality. If you could time travel 30 years into the future, tell me who is going to be more popular: Ed Sheeran or Ariel Pink?”— Julian Casablancas, vulture.com
“Everything you’re saying sounds 100 percent like cultural brainwashing.”— Julian Casablancas, vulture.com
“Everyone knows David Bowie now, but I bet he was pretty underground in the ’70s.”— Julian Casablancas, vulture.com
“I strive to build a world where the Velvet Underground would be more popular than the Rolling Stones. Or where Ariel Pink is as popular as Ed Sheeran.”— Julian Casablancas, vulture.com
“Music isn’t just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that—it’s an ideology. You can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“You and I, we have music in our bones.”— Naoshi Arakawa, Patrick Seitz, Takao Yoshioka, Kaori Miyazono, Risa Taneda, imdb.com
“I haven't had so much fun since seeing Zooey Deschannel at the Coacharilla music festival.”— Randall Einhorn, Troy Miller, Charles McDougall, B.J. Novak,, Erin Hannon, Ellie Kemper, imdb.com
“An old friend once told me something that gave me great comfort. Something he read. He said Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin never died. They simply became music.”— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“Here's to more women on these stages, more women winning awards and more women taking over the world.”— Dua Lipa, teenvogue.com
“Interesting also that Jews wrote so much American popular music & this includes rhythm & blues. Titles you'd never have guessed since they have so passed into popular culture.”— Joyce Carol Oates, twitter.com
“This research tells us that the majority of us, when we are grown men and women, predictably stick with the music that captured us in the earliest phase of our adolescence.”— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, nytimes.com
“What I like most about music is when it sounds like music. [...] I really like music when it’s quite clear and simple.”— Nilüfer Yanya, interviewmagazine.com
“That whole virtual reality thing... it really is demonic. And I am not a demon.”— Prince, sites.google.com