My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about…

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.

— Matisyahu

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

— Bonnie Raitt

I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of…

— Arca

To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life.

— Laura Allen

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

— Derek Bailey

Music is really driving my whole life.

— Ariana Grande

I started out in the Chabad movement, and I started pretty closed up, with the idea of there being that 'this is it.' I…

— Matisyahu

There was a band very early on in our class, and I played in that band and as a teenager, I continued. It was…

— Agnes Obel

I think that to capture food in music, you really are capturing an emotional response to food.

— Michael Giacchino

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.

— Ray Charles

It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different…

— Olly Murs

I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.

— Will Champion

Fashion is a huge part of music and of who you are. It really sets the mood for a show, and it's fun to…

— Banks

You have got to stress the freedom of music to really branch out and be universal.

— Alice Coltrane

I do feel pressure from the outside world a little bit just because everybody wants new music, which is really nice. It just proves…

— Alessia Cara