Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant. Ani DiFranco
I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess. Ani DiFranco
I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial. Ani DiFranco
I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally. Ani DiFranco
I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No. Ani DiFranco
Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.' Ani DiFranco
Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene. Diablo Cody
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending. Igor Stravinsky
Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl. Kenny Chesney
For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again. Paula Cole
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. Claude Debussy
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite. Miriam Makeba
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. Maurice Sendak
It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American. Miriam Makeba
There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books. Maurice Sendak
I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid. Philip Seymour Hoffman
I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him. Joaquin Phoenix
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. Gabriel Marcel
It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry. Martina McBride
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. Quincy Jones