Being Quote by Neneh Cherry

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

— Jessi Colter

I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on every album,…

— St. Lucia

I was making the music and writing the songs which reflected the emerging consciousness of my generation.

— Donovan

When I began making electronic music, the only thing I was thinking about was creating music that I really liked. I didn't think about…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to…

— Brian Eno

The music suddenly became important enough for me to build my own sound studio and start to prepare songs to possibly put out into…

— Planningtorock

It was important for the first piece of original music that I release to have a timeless feel because that's the type of music…

— Chloe Kohanski

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

— Cyndi Lauper

I think I just liked the idea that I could make something, that I could communicate some sort of idea through music.

— John Congleton

With 'Torches,' I wanted to make a great pop record; I wanted every song to be exciting, not to have too much space, no…

— Mark Foster

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.

— Marilyn Manson

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

— Les Paul