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As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.

As an artist, to release music is what you look forward to. That's what everybody looks forward to when they sign a deal. It feels really good to know I'm actually working towards a release date.

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.

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 seeing this around the globe right now.

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Country music belongs to America.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

Country music is about new love and it's about old love.

Country music is not a formula it's a music with its own soul and I'm all about saving that soul!

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily.

Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

Dance music is Madonna's base. It's what she likes, it's what she listens to. It's not anything other than that. She doesn't read what's on the charts. And if it's on time, great. This is who she is.

Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.

Electronic music is so weird because trends change so fast.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

English music is white - it evades everything.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.

Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.

Folk music is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that it belongs to them. It doesn't belong only to them. It belongs to everyone who's interested in the blueprints of good songwriting.

Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.

Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

For me music is so passionate. I have to give it my all every time I go onstage.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

Going back to the paradigm we live in, the only way to do music is if I can sustain living off of it. If I can't live off of it, I'm not going to be able to make as much music.

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.

From Ennio [Morricone] I ask for themes that clothe my characters easily. He's never read a script of mine to compose the music, because many times he's composed the music before the script is ever written.

Goes the song, "we change, we change." But the music is still mine.

Good music is wine turned to sound