Even though I’ve been putting out bodies of work for years, ‚Beauty Behind the Madness‘ felt like the beginning.
The WeekndMy mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.
Kurt CobainU2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
BonoI thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.
Greta ThunbergI’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.
Taylor SwiftPower is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Fyodor DostoevskyBut for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.
Kanye WestIf you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.
Vivienne WestwoodI’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.
Billie EilishThere are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
Henry David ThoreauTo the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.
Steven WrightIn a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.
Bill GatesWe must be our own before we can be another’s.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNext to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Martin LutherThe possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
George Bernard ShawIf you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.
Dolly PartonYou can’t really imagine music without technology.
Brian EnoI try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.
Nipsey HussleI would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
Taylor SwiftAll of my music is honest.
The WeekndIf I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
Bob DylanI said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
Robert Baden-PowellWhenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.
Frank OceanFreedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Jean-Paul SartreIt’s insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it’s assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It’s that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he’s telling you something about his own life. It’s so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!
Brian EnoA black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.
Maya AngelouAlways remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. NixonYou have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus AureliusAs a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Virginia WoolfI don’t like the name, U2, actually.
BonoI listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
Amy WinehouseMotivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. EisenhowerMusic is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle‚House of Balloons‘ was actually supposed to have more songs than it does.
The WeekndA lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.
Dave GrohlI want people to draw strength from me.
Mr. TMusic, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.
Virat KohliThere are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert SchweitzerI don’t think a song should be put in a category.
Billie EilishWe need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.
Bad BunnyIf a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Benjamin FranklinI can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.
Dolly PartonMy songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
Bob DylanThis self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
VoltaireThe truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.
Taylor SwiftI didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.
Kanye WestYou have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
John LennonNothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!
Audrey HepburnPeople are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.
David ByrneThirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
Kanye WestIt is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William ShakespeareI know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.
Dave GrohlI’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.
Ariana GrandeLet us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.
Ronald ReaganMusic is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van BeethovenI didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.
Amy WinehouseBefore all else, be armed.
Niccolo MachiavelliMusic when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
John Ruskin