“When you get into music and start with noise, there’s so much room to grow from there. If you start with some really technical shit, you just grow from the colonized way of thinking about music.”— Yves Tumor, pitchfork.com
“Listen, music my flesh and blood, it's been my only love since ye high. I used to play Jay high and Ye high, thinkin' one day I would go from fan to fuckin' player.I guess I found a way huh, my nigga. Cozz wants Zendaya: a side note, I'm rootin' for you, I use these bars and start recruitin' for you…”— Cozz, J. Cole, open.spotify.com
“If you can’t be fearless making music and art, then I would say get out of the way.”— Wayne Coyne, salon.com
“I think when you’re in the moment it’s very easy to get pushed along by the moment, but that’s how cool things get done. If we sat around and thought about everything for three weeks, no music would get made.”— Wayne Coyne, theguardian.com
“The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.”— George Gershwin, en.wikiquote.org
“I feel like being in the music industry changes a lot. You’re exposed to so many different types of sounds and so much different type of stuff. Once you have an established song, you can really come out of your shell and experiment with the sound you want to make.”— Post Malone, vibe.com
“People don't understand when you're working on an album and you're getting into a groove, it's hard to stop that groove and that zone you're in, that vision you got, to jump onto a whole new thing and restart from a blank sheet basically.”— Schoolboy Q, pigeonsandplanes.com
“It’s kind of like building a building within a building and then tearing down the outer building and then building another structure that looks like the first one, then tweaking the windows and removing the roof.”— Bryce Dessner, stereogum.com