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Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed.

Without sounding cliché, music is like air. It provides for me. I don't necessarily look for what I can get out of it. It's a compulsion. I've always gotten out of it everything.

Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.

Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

You gotta be, like, a professional hippie. You need to make music because you love it.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.

A life without music is an error.

All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

All music is worship. It just depends on what you’re worshipping.

All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

All I want out of music is to think to myself, this could be in a makeover montage.

All music is good music, if it touches your soul.

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

All rock music is fake news.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it.

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

A new music is a new mind.

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

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

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

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

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!

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.

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 belongs to America.

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