Enemy Quote by Mark Fisher

It was easy for people to be derisive about our music because they saw what we were doing as retro. But we were like…

— Eric Carmen

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

— Chris Lowe

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

— Salman Rushdie

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

— Jason Mraz

Music is music - it makes no difference what it is. I can like Slipknot and Public Enemy equally.

— Tech N9ne

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there…

— Elliott Carter

As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed…

— Chuck D

There's this notion that music has to be confined to some small, simple place to be popular, something I never believed.

— Kamasi Washington

Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why.

— Charlemagne Palestine

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from…

— Daniel Ek

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

— Adam Levine

“Music can act as an invisible uniting force that claims the unclaimed and defines the outcasts of a culture.”

— Bob Boilen