Books Quote by Colson Whitehead

The music is the thing. I am not writing for critics; I don't want to become a personality.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost…

— Chuck Klosterman

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

— Oscar Peterson

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

— Nina Blackwood

I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.

— John Rzeznik

I collect and read as many books about music and film as I do fiction.

— George Pelecanos

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

— Dodie Smith

I achieved everything one can achieve as a concert singer. Six Echo Klassik awards and three Grammys, and I also have my professorship at…

— Thomas Quasthoff

I'd like to extend my career a little bit into different genres.

— Jason Sudeikis

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

— Jonathan Lethem

My career as an author began as I saw it as a natural progression from music, as both music and books are a method…

— Tom Fletcher

I guess, at the end of the day, I want to be viewed as a musician.

— Lauren Mayberry