Carbon Quote by Immortal Technique

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way,…

— Peter Gabriel

“I'm tired of the music industry these days! They polish everything until it no longer sounds real. The raw uncut sound is something I…

— Clive Langer

Great music and great artists create their own music and look and are not manufactured.

— Bill Bailey

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for…

— Jerry Harrison

Nothing unifies people more than music, more than that universal riff. The one thing that unifies us and the hope that we can have,…

— Fantastic Negrito

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can…

— David Byrne

To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really…

— Brandon Boyd

I think it's every artist's dream to create something that will endure, something that people will listen to until there are no more people…

— Jim James

There's a time and a place for a bit of realism, and it's bands like Arctic Monkeys that do it amazingly well. But why…

— James Righton

Music is supposed to be inspired.

— Chris Cornell

So many artists try to be something that they're not.

— Johnny Van Zant

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

— Ariel Gore