Always Quote by Ariel Pink

I couldn't think of anything worse than hating your own music and having to play it every night. It would be a nightmare.

— Imelda May

I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.

— Joe Budden

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life…

— Jeff Buckley

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

— Cyndi Lauper

I'd really started hating music. I'd started hating all the songs, hating being in the industry, hating doing the shows. So I had to…

— Estelle

When I began making electronic music, the only thing I was thinking about was creating music that I really liked. I didn't think about…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.

— Alicia Keys

I want to change peoples' minds about music, I want to bring the really brutal experimental stuff to peoples' attention.

— Squarepusher

I wanted to talk about how stupid music is. I wanted to talk about how awesome music is, and how depressing it is, and…

— Phoebe Bridgers

I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and…

— Daniel Powter

Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it…

— Mitski

The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough…

— Mose Allison