Tom Petty
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES FAITH HILL But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music. ISAAC HANSON KENNY G Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subject... MIKE D JIMMY BUFFETT BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't hav... RANDY NEWMAN I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's bla... F. GARY GRAY ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT RUFUS WAINWRIGHT JOSHUA BELL I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn'... WATKIN TUDOR JONES MOBY Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Ti... GEORGE MARTIN I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you ... JOE HILL It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be... AKON KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?' AL YANKOVIC BURNING SPEAR RACHEL COHN ZIGGY MARLEY JOSHUA BELL Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion. ICE CUBE SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR BARRY WHITE You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales a... ALISON KRAUSS BEBE REXHA For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drummi... YELAWOLF HENRY ROLLINS BILLIE HOLIDAY HARRY STYLES JOHN COLTRANE The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit so... FLUME TAYLOR SWIFT B. B. KING VILLE VALO It's always been about making music. I've never gotten caught up with the trappings. You can... AL JARREAU All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. ... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA J. COLE You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you. ZAKK WYLDE MARY LAMBERT Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the w... AL JARREAU I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a... MARK BRADFORD STEVE AOKI MICHAEL STIPE GARY WRIGHT BRIAN ENO RICKY SKAGGS STEVE WINWOOD I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, beca... P. J. HARVEY AIMEE MANN People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English m... HARRISON BIRTWISTLE CLIVE DAVIS I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's ... PAUL MCDONALD I can't work without music. DAMIAN LOEB I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anythin... JUSTIN VERNON HUNTER HAYES ARLO GUTHRIE It's about the music, not the color of the person playing the music. DARIUS RUCKER Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language t... LOU RAWLS J. D. SOUTHER Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but ja... BILLY HIGGINS A. R. RAHMAN To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have... RONALDINHO ELISABETH ELLIOT EDWARD SNOWDEN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ever hear a song you love so much you wanna break sh*t? JULIET SIMMS They're kicking us out saying it's time to close THE SCRIPT Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music. IAN HUNTER BRIAN ENO SHANIA TWAIN NICK HORNBY So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy'... JAMES YOUNG WASHED OUT BUSTA RHYMES JERRY GARCIA BAT FOR LASHES BIG BOI There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music... DAISY BERKOWITZ I don't care what people say. My music's, my music. ENRIQUE IGLESIAS TED CRUZ LEONA LEWIS I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because i... NORAH JONES Being called a 'music legend' is a very funny thing. It's nice to know that my work has ... CHRIS SQUIRE MARCUS SAMUELSSON DANIEL BARENBOIM We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and s... PETE HAMILL Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If y... W. P. KINSELLA SAMANTHA MORTON I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we progr... ESA-PEKKA SALONEN GOTYE The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's ... DARYL HALL ALEX LIFESON Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal langu... PAUL EPWORTH That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it. ADAM JONES You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically... LANCE REDDICK The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age. COMPAY SEGUNDO
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Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells... 
Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like... 
There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don&... 
But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays o... 
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to mus... 
There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie indust... 
We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high m... 
One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of p... 
I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do thin... 
Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the st... 
I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ... 
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'The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed ... 
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I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that ... 
It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to ... 
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. 
That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a wo... 
My goal is to live the truly religious life and express it through my music. If you can live it, the... 
A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were ... 
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