Appreciate Quote by James Hunter

When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.

— Wynonna Judd

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

— Dwight Yoakam

It's a really deep and layered psychological situation - making music with someone - if they're trying to make something real and personal. It's…

— Arca

People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't…

— Tom Waits

When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.

— Panda Bear

It's a different kind of satisfaction, different kind of enjoyment than making your own songs, to remake someone else's song that you really like.

— Mark Lanegan

When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you're able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that's the most…

— Tove Lo

Some people don't understand that but it's nice when it really just gets to the point then that it [music] doesn't get played so…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

As an artist, you need to be true to yourself and free and not put yourself in a box that contradicts with what you…

— Yasmine Hamdan

Music is a diary. Sometimes people make music as if no one's going to hear it, as if they can just be completely honest.…

— Giveon

Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age…

— Samuel Pepys

That's the crazy part about music, that you can just be someone and it means something.

— Vince Staples