• "My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly." - Carlos Santana Tweet
• "I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song." - Amy Winehouse Tweet
• "I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else." - Ellie Goulding Tweet
• "I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game." - Adam Lambert Tweet
• "In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years." - Susan Orlean Tweet
• "I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks." - Ellie Goulding Tweet
• "I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate." - Joni Mitchell Tweet
• "There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior." - David Byrne Tweet
• "I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show." - Demi Lovato Tweet
• "If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music." - Gustav Mahler Tweet