“If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.”— Mark E Smith, amazon.com
“Ed's not a guy who goes, "What do you think?" Ed's in his own thing and he's a star athlete.”— John Mayer, rollingstone.com
“I realized not long ago that I'm done debating my own merits: "No, I am very good.”— John Mayer, rollingstone.com
“When Michael started, it was a different world. But because Michael kept going, because he didn’t accept limitations, because he refused to let people decide his boundaries, he opened up the whole world. In the music world, he put on one glove, pulled his pants up and broke down the color curtain.”— Al Sharpton, youtube.com
“Now, you're going to use our song to disrupt our debate. This is crazy.”— Al Sharpton, washingtonpost.com
“I would love to feel that what I did actually changed the fabric of music.”— David Bowie, amazon.com
“When you start experimenting with soundscapes, it makes other things come to light.”— Carlos Alomar, amazon.com
“Going on tour each night excited him very much. But he said to me flat out, 'I'm tired.' I think he fulfilled all his wishes and dreams and maybe got a little oversaturated.”— Tony VIsconti, amazon.com
“I think it's not particularly necessary to lead a religious life. People progress just as well in music, or art, or math or science or gardening or whatever. It all seems to work as well and the process is good.”— Jim Henson, goodreads.com
“I never totally dedicated myself to anything. I’ve always been a jack-of-no-trades, but just making it happen: You know, play guitar just enough to play on The Love Below. Play piano just enough to do “Ms. Jackson.” My first chords were “Hey Ya!”— Andre 3000, gq.com
“Dear music, I will never be able to thank you enough for always being there for me.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“I like Christian rock. It's very positive. It's not like those real musicians who think they're so cool and hip.”— Jennifer Crittenden, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, “smoked salmon and Bach.””— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead.”— Kim Jonghyun, goodreads.com
“I literally cried when I wrote ‘I still keep your shampoo in my shower in case you wanna wash your hair.’ That’s the saddest lyric I’ve ever written in my life. Think of how much desperation is in that line. She’s not coming to wash her hair at your house! It’s over.”— John Mayer, youtube.com
“It’s like this dog in Japan. The dog had an owner. And the owner would go to the train every day. And the dog would follow the owner to the train and then be there at the exact time the owner came back from work off the train. The dog would be waiting on the train platform. Then one day the owner di…”— John Mayer, youtube.com
“The music was a tapestry woven of light and dark and color, building delicate links in a chain that latched on to her heart and spread out into the world, binding her to it, connecting everything.”— Sarah J. Maas, amazon.com
“I like music...because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not . . . for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating.”— Sarah J. Maas, Celaena Sardothien, amazon.com