Music Quotes

There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.

Win Butler
- Up
- Music
- Experience
Making music has saved my life.

Alice Ripley
- Life
- Music

I grew up in a very visual household. My dad is a designer; my sister is a designer. My brother is an amazing architect who does music. But I think in the Chung household, how things looked was an important part of who you are.

Alexa Chung
- Up
- Important
- Dad
Music really helps me. It's like a best friend.

El DeBarge DeBarge
- Music
- Friend
I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to write pop music. I guess you could say it was my intellectual evolution and my love of music began to change.

Lady Gaga
- Music
Music became less understandable in the wake of the new MTV era. You weren't supposed to be anything other than a pop star, to not go deeper than that. It was really strange. It was suffocating, image-wise. What you could talk about in a song changed; if you were misunderstood, you were really misunderstood - taken literally.

Ann Wilson Heart
- Song
- Taken
- Star
If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist.

Kamasi Washington
- People
- Thinking
- Would Be
I used to go to the Church of the Harvest, right off Adams and La Brea. There was a pastor there who had the best big choir and the best band. He would start praying, and the music would start playing and just make people feel so good, you could break out of whatever you were going through. Soft music can have that effect, too.

Ty Dolla Sign
- People
- Good
- Church