One reason people are turning to country music is because…

I've never been very good at creating absolute music, which has no non-musical dimension to it. I think that is why filmmakers gravitated toward…

— Johann Johannsson

We love the idea of putting out music in a non-conventional way.

— M. Shadows

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

— Earle Brown

There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a sort of…

— Missy Mazzoli

We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the top of…

— Chuck D

You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

— Dan Deacon

As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were going crazy. All of a…

— Sylvia Robinson

I think as this generation of electronic musicians goes on, popular electronic music will be more and more accepted. It's gonna get less confusing.…

— Dan Deacon

I am Michael Render - that's what my mom named me. 'Killer Mike' is what my dumb friends called me in a rap battle…

— Killer Mike

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

— Patti Page

“Music has been called 'the most noise conveying the least information”

— Stuart Hall

Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which comes second and her harmony is composed…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

— Charles Kingsley

Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Back in 2008, nobody wanted to listen to or play my music. They called it trance. There was no market for it, but I…

— Hardwell