“But I don't know, maybe [the fire] had something to do with the song, like 'I Won't Back Down' and things. Because I felt really elated that they didn't get me. ... The thought that was going through my head [was] 'Whoa, you bastards, you didn't get me.'”— Tom Petty, npr.org
“I am missing you most in the silence between songs on my favourite records. Sometimes it takes so long for the music to start.”— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com
“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.”— John Keats, amazon.com
“Occasionally I'll wake up in the night and think of a song that I've forgotten all about. It's almost like people ringing you up.”— Joe Strummer, punkmagazine.com
“A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.”— E. B. White, amazon.com
“These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.”— Elvis Costello, elviscostello.info
“Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow. Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.”— George Jones, en.thinkexist.com
“If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I’m trying to do that.”— Roscoe Mitchell, furious.com
“How did Metallica get people to stop pirating their music? They stopped releasing anything worth listening to.”— wompt, reddit.com
“Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realized that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.”— John Lydon, yorkshirepost.co.uk
“There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.”— Bjork, goodreads.com
“A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead; then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm, became liquid, loud, drumming, musical, innumerable, unive…”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“RapCaviar reminds me of Hot 97 in the early ’90s. When Hot 97 played ‘Protect Ya Neck’ by the Wu-Tang Clan, that was it. It went all over the country. RapCaviar has that influence right now. A song goes in RapCaviar and everyone pays attention.”— Joie Manda, vulture.com
“Music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.”— Billy Corgan, rollingstone.com
“That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”— Dave Grohl, theguardian.com