Always Quote by Derek Trucks

When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting…

— Gustav Ejstes

At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

I feel like the first record was really finding my feet, figuring out what music I wanted to make... Now that I've done that,…

— Flume

My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in…

— John Luther Adams

I don't know exactly where the ideas come from, but when I get into a songwriting mode and it's coming along, it's like you're…

— Robert Earl Keen

I love the notion of a dude sitting there with an untuned guitar tapping his foot and just singing his passion out; that's what…

— Ato Essandoh

I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.

— Sting

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first…

— Norah Jones

Each song has its own way that it likes to be done, but it can be more than one way. If you tap into…

— Rhiannon Giddens

I think that that's the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It's by synthesizing elements from all…

— David Sanborn

When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music…

— John McLaughlin

It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.

— Damien Chazelle