The way it always starts with me making my music is I will…

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

— Ziggy Marley

Sometimes when you play music, you start thinking, "This is rocking!"

— Bret McKenzie

Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating…

— Benny Blanco

I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone…

— Max Winkler

When I was little, if the music was on I'd start to dance.

— Demond Wilson

Part of the passion for me was hearing great music from the very start of it, now I'm one of the people who can…

— Fabolous

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the…

— Elton John

As a person life has always been a bit of a challenge for me and I have spent so much of my early years…

— Alison Sudol

I work with a lot of music programs and there's a steep learning curve to a lot of them. You can really find yourself…

— Joe

My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic…

— John Legend

I'm focused on the music. I think, as long as I keep making music just because I like to make it, people are gonna…

— Bishop Nehru

When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I…

— M. Ward

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get…

— Mariah Carey

Making music with other people feeds spontaneity, and lends ideas to your solo work.

— Jacob Collier

I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In…

— Rostam Batmanglij