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

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

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

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

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

A life without music is an error.

All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

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

All rock music is fake news.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

A new music is a new mind.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

Electronic music is so weird because trends change so fast.

English music is white - it evades everything.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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