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Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

~ Lauryn Hill

In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.

~ Damian Marley

I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.

~ Enrique Iglesias

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

~ Ll Cool J

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

~ Trey Anastasio

To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.

~ Carrie Brownstein

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.

~ Tom Stoppard

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

~ Bruce Springsteen

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.

~ Frank Ocean

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

~ Jonathan Davis

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

~ Jeff Buckley

I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out of the public schools, then you're going to lose a lot of people that you might have discovered were talented, very early.

~ Jessye Norman

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

~ Merle Haggard

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

~ David Coverdale

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

~ Rod Stewart

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

~ Nikki Sixx

Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.

~ Gary Numan

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

It's hard to dance to really fast music. All you can do is pump your fist to it, and after a while, you're going to have a seizure.

~ Kiesza

From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone before - whether it was approaching the blues or folk music like 'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You': nothing existed like that.

~ Jimmy Page

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

~ Will Oldham

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

~ Brian May

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

~ Talib Kweli

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

~ Loretta Lynn

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

~ Levon Helm

I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.

~ Tommy Chong

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

~ Meat Loaf

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.

~ Robert Moog

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

~ Howard Gardner

I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.

~ Ben E. King

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

~ Elvis Presley

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

~ Stephen Sondheim

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

~ Van Morrison

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

~ Casey Kasem

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

~ Bryan Ferry

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

~ Roscoe Mitchell

We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music.

~ Mike Shinoda

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

~ Sid Vicious

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

~ Virgil Thomson

You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.

~ Jerry Reed