“Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.”

Adam Levine

“I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There’s no tricks. It’s honesty with big melodies.”

Bruno Mars

“Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you’ve had a bunch of bad days and there’s different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.”

Taylor Swift

“I don’t make music for eyes. I make music for ears.”

Adele

“My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.”

Eric Clapton

“There’s a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.”
Sheryl Crow