Alive Quote by John Lennon

The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the…

— Andrew Bird

Music kept my mind active and engaged and helped to keep the more unpleasant things out of my mind when things weren't going the…

— Noah Reid

I feel like, as a girl, I would have reacted or maybe been more depressed about some of the things that would have happened…

— Lzzy Hale

I remember early on, for instance, having to play wedding gigs, that I hated playing the music. Now I don't have to play music…

— Norah Jones

I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.

— Brian Welch

If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I…

— Lavinia Greenlaw

I had people telling me how much I sucked and how bad my music was, but I didn't allow that to discourage me to…

— Poo Bear

Then, in high school, I had a kind of mental breakdown; I didn't want to go to school anymore. It felt pointless. It was…

— Michelle Zauner

I'd really started hating music. I'd started hating all the songs, hating being in the industry, hating doing the shows. So I had to…

— Estelle

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was…

— Gary Numan

I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits…

— Eli Roth

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

— Dave Grohl