Air Quote by Renee Fleming

I was born understanding the language of music.

— Julian Bream

I'd always been a kid that loved literature, reading, writing - anything to do with words - so music was just a path.

— Jade Bird

Music was a way for me to almost speak things into existence before they even happened and to build confidence.

— Darren Waller

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.

— Harry Mathews

I learnt everything to do with music in my own time.

— Tash Sultana

I didn't study music. I literally lived it,

— Paco de Lucia

Music was more than just something I enjoyed listening to. I was fascinated by it. I'd watch some of my favourite artists and emulate…

— Jay Sean

For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.

— Garth Greenwell

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to…

— Dave Davies

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

— John Cage

I did 'The Sound of Music.' That was my first musical.

— Lindsay Mendez

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I…

— June Jordan