“You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?”
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“Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.”
“Music for me, it demands full concentration.”
“On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.”
“I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.”
“Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.”
“I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.”
“Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.”
“You can't really imagine music without technology.”
“I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.”
“Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.”
“There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.”
“You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.”
“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”
“I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.”
“The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.”
“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”
“Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.”
“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”
“Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.”
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.”
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”