Hard Quote by Selena

My memories of mealtimes are a real bleed of music and food. Music never really stopped in the music room, because everyone would move…

— Anoushka Shankar

Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

— Alice Herz-Sommer

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

— Marilyn Manson

We were just really into music and every lunch we'd be inside playing guitars and jamming out so not much social action was happening.

— Calum Hood

I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my first guitar and…

— Benjamin Clementine

For a while, I just sang at a steakhouse. I would go from table to table and really just survived on tips.

— Sissy Spacek

I started making music because I could.

— Alanis Morissette

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.

— John Darnielle

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It…

— Maria Sharapova

I kind of just sat in a room for six years making music, and then suddenly I was on the road all the time.

— Ethel Cain

I never really planned on playing music. But it was a thing I'd always done, since I was young. So it just carried me…

— Alison Mosshart

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

— Johnny Winter