I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious. Alanis Morissette
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. Leopold Stokowski
I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs? Dave Grohl
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it. Billie Joe Armstrong
Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all. Lady Gaga
I don't want to make niche-oriented music. Lady Gaga
I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.' Lady Gaga
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage. Keith Richards
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music. Keith Richards
I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba. Carlos Santana
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going. Jerry Saltz
Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult! Taylor Swift
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music. Taylor Swift
Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life. Chris Rock