“I want to be able to express myself, and I want people to feel that I’m being sincere in talking about my situation through music. That’s something I’m going to be talking about a lot more on my new record than I’ve ever done in the past.”— Alice Glass, bullettmedia.com
“One sunny spring day I heard the music coming down Karl Johan [street] and it filled me with joy. The spring, the sun, the music, all blended together to make me shiver with pleasure. The music added colour to the colours. I painted the picture allowing the colours to reverberate with the rhythm of…”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“Young women say I helped them come out of their shells, and 13 rock groups have written songs about me. One song has these lyrics all the way through, ‘I love Bettie Page. I love Bettie Page. I love Bettie Page.’”— Bettie Page, latimesblogs.latimes.com
“Young women say I helped them come out of their shells, and 13 rock groups have written songs about me.”— Bettie Page, books.google.com
“Film has dream, film has music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com
“I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com
“My heart is a bar and someone else works there now. My heart is in a bar that feels like someone else’s home when I walk into it.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal; and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a…”— James Dean, wordsfortheyear.com
“It has been wild, you know, I started out just putting a song that I made out on the internet without being sure if anyone was going to like it and it took me on tour around the world with Justin Bieber, it's been amazing!”— Post Malone, forbes.com
“As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.”— David Byrne, amazon.com
“Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can’t conceive of it being an isolated thing. It’s whom you were with, how old you were, and what was happening that day.”— David Byrne, amazon.com
“A guy turns to his buddy during an archaeological excavation and slides one headphone back off his ear... "Hey man, I really dig this album!"”— JimRockfordPI, reddit.com
“Make sure you date someone who always makes you want to dance, with or without music.”— Christina Engela, amazon.com
“'You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?'... 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche...o…”— Rachel Cohn, David Levithan, amazon.com
“...music, if it really resonates, will beat somewhere right near your heartbeat. That music will make sense to you...because it's in rhythm with your soul.”— Maynard James Keenan, amazon.com
“There’s a holiness there. If that were to go away, I don’t think I would be interested in it, and I don’t think they would. We’re a real rock ’n’ roll band — always have been. And to us, in the era we came up in, it was a religion in a way. It was more than commerce, it wasn’t about that. It was abo…”— Tom Petty, latimes.com
“I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it’s almost like the other people can’t see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com