Change Quote by Samuel Ervin Beam

The reason I make music is to make people feel something, anything.

— Blackbear

Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.

— Richard Strauss

You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.

— Aaron Bruno

Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where…

— Tom Jenkinson

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that…

— Jonny Lang

I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really…

— Ryan Adams

I'm very flash and burn - the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the best idea, and that's because it should come…

— Zach Condon

I just want to make music that people hear, and I'm not ashamed of that.

— Justin Tranter

I am just creating the music I enjoy to make, and people seem to enjoy it.

— Post Malone

We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be…

— Andy Partridge

I always want to be somewhat uncomfortable. But at the same time I want to make music that you react to viscerally.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.

— Trent Reznor