Human beings Quote by Herbie Hancock

With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock lyrics, but…

— Stephen Malkmus

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular…

— Steve Vai

On the surface, being a musician can look pretty glamorous. But so much work goes into it.

— Sid Sriram

I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning…

— Herbie Hancock

And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss,…

— Victoria de los Angeles

I don't think you're selling out by allowing the masses to love your art. The only curse is that, when you get so big,…

— Scooter Braun

I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.

— R. Kelly

When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types…

— Travis Barker

Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.

— Igor Stravinsky

Everything is starting to make a little more sense to me now. I love the idea that, first of all when I made the…

— Courtney Jaye

I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your own memories to make a song…

— Agnes Obel

The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open…

— Kaci Brown

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I…

— Sergio Leone

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

— Stephan Jenkins

Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going…

— Snoop Dogg