The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefina...

Music should enrich the soul; it should teach spirituality by showing a person a portion of himself that he would not discover otherwise. ...

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is. Louis Armstrong

I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I sp...

When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you...

If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've ...

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music. Philip Glass

Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing. Glenn Branca

photo: Joel del Tufo If you want to be an entertainer and just keep your audience happy, that's one thing. But to be an artist, I thin...

Songwriting, for me, that's the way it works. We were just talking about going to see the Elton John movie, Rocketman, the other day -...

The only time I ever really got into rap was back in the early '90s, and bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr. Musi...

Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists - 'goff' wi...

Soft Machine were going more in the direction of fusion jazz and I didn't like that. They were going more in the direction of jazz, wh...

I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not! I can't not write; if I don't, then I get really de...

Music is everything and nothing. It is useless and no limit can be set on its use. Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and ins...

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group fo...

I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my part...

I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum. Nick Mason

It's a mistake thinking that drugs supplied Pink Floyd with the inspiration. The ones who took drugs were the ones who came to see the...

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without ...