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Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.
David Byrne on music

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
David Byrne on music

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.
David Byrne on music

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.
Maynard James Keenan on music

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
Karl Lagerfeld on music

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
Karl Lagerfeld on music

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.
Amanda Seyfried on music

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.
Gerard Way on music

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.
Shania Twain on music

Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.
Shania Twain on music

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
Shania Twain on music

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.
Shania Twain on music

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
Shania Twain on music

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.
Shania Twain on music

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
Pete Townshend on music

All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
Yoko Ono on music

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Ludwig van Beethoven on music

I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup, their clothes, music, live shows - anything you don't need to take too seriously, don't take too seriously.
Kesha on music

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
Joan Jett on music

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
Jonathan Davis on music