I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.
~ Jake Bugg
Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.
~ Josh Klinghoffer
Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
~ Jimi Hendrix
I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.
~ Lil Wayne
As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.
~ Erykah Badu
I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!
~ Lebron James
When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music.
~ Jerry Lee Lewis
My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.
~ Randy Travis
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
~ Felix Mendelssohn
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
~ Layne Staley
Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
~ Gunther Schuller
Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
~ Levon Helm
I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.
~ Joanna Newsom
I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
~ Adele
That type of autograph, pictures and apparel thievery was not part of what I grew up with. I loved the artists and their music. I would be thrilled to meet them, but the thought of getting a scribble or stealing an article of clothing never occurred or appealed to me.
~ Davey Havok
I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.
~ Carrie Brownstein
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
~ David Bowie
This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
~ Bruce Springsteen
If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.
~ Jennifer Lopez
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
~ Pete Townshend
I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.
~ Lauryn Hill
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
~ Heinrich Heine
I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.
~ Jonny Greenwood
Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
~ Yancy Butler
When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.
~ Alexander Skarsgard
Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
~ Haley Reinhart
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
~ Bernard Baruch
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
~ Francis Bacon
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
~ Confucius
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
~ C. S. Lewis
At my age flowers scare me.
~ George Burns
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
~ Thom Gunn
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
~ Howard Schultz
For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive.
~ Neil Degrasse Tyson
Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.
~ Cate Blanchett
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
~ E. B. White
I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinating time, when the British Empire was at the height of its powers and the strict mores of the Victorian age were dissipating into the decadence of King Edward's reign.
~ Kevin Kwan
