I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt. Christina Aguilera
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. W. H. Auden
I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs. Freddie Mercury
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that. Carlos Santana
My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly. Carlos Santana
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. Corita Kent
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. Charles Ives
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. Brian Eno
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice. Brian Eno
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others. Brian Eno
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. Brian Eno
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience. Brian Eno
I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs. Brian Eno
It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of. Brian Eno
I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones. Brian Eno
I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world. Brian Eno
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to. Brian Eno
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth. Brian Eno
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. Brian Eno
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too. Brian Eno