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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
John McLaughlin on music

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.
Scott Weiland on music

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.
Bono on music

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.
Scott Weiland on music

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
Bono on music

Rock music is niche.
Bono on music

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.
Levon Helm on music

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?
Jamie Foxx on music

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
Eddie Vedder on music

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
Peter Tork on music

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
Stevie Wonder on music

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
William Lyon Phelps on music

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.
Annie Lennox on music

I love to make music and stay grounded.
Annie Lennox on music

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
Annie Lennox on music

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.
Jon Bon Jovi on music

Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.
Maria Sharapova on music

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.
Mark Zuckerberg on music

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach on music

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
Carlos Santana on music