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I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.
Alanis Morissette
I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.
Hermann Hesse
The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
Carlos Santana
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
Mark Twain
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
Brian Eno
I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.
Ani DiFranco
I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.
Steve Martin
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler
I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.
Joan Jett
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
Paul Simon
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
Billy Corgan
For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.
Norah Jones
My music is fun, kind of cheeky.
Kesha
I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.
Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.
Maynard James Keenan
If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.
Aulis Sallinen
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
Robert Fulghum
I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.
Ellen DeGeneres
