Approach Quote by Steve Vai

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

— Luciano Pavarotti

Musicians are, by and large, not the most politically savvy crew.

— Ben Shapiro

Musicians and non-musicians alike are priding themselves on the width and breadth of their musical interests, which I think is to be encouraged.

— Chris Thile

Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're…

— Tom Morello

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

— Kamasi Washington

I suppose musicians have the kind of arrogant attitude that they can actually offer the world something, because through their passive power, they're able…

— Lisa Gerrard

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

— Jimmy Chamberlin

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

— Alan Menken

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

— Hedy Lamarr

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

— Stanley Clarke

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

— Slash

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of…

— Lesley Garrett