ISM’S TO LIVE BY
Prince
“Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told...
Joni Mitchell
“You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a...
Taylor Rice(Local Natives)
“For me, if the process of creating music is honest, I feel like I don’t have complete control over how I want the songs to come out.”–Taylor Rice (Local Natives)...
Ed Droste
“One of the great things about the Internet is that people are excited about music and wanna hear a random...
Tunde Abedimpe
“Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide...
James Murphy
“I’d start to see bands prioritize things wrong in my mind, they weren’t prioritizing the momentness of a show or the physical experience of a show. Instead, they were prioritizing making sure they didn’t make mistakes or prioritizing trying to...
Chuck D
“I spread the message of hope and of unity. That’s what gets me up in the morning. I can tell...
Erykah Badu
“The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.”–Erykah Badu...
Kimbra
“It’s a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We’ve got all this media and...
Oshun
“Osun is a Yoruba river deity. She is basically the goddess of love and female energy, female sensuality. So we...
Sarah Lipstate
“From the beginning, I didn’t want to take lessons or anything. I was interested in alternate tunings. I loved Sonic...
Bell Hooks
“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”–Bell Hooks...
Shirley Chisholm
“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, “It’s a girl.””–Shirley Chisholm...
Verna Small
“The attitude of the Village was ‘We’ve got to catch up with Brooklyn Heights!’” — Verna Small...
Elaine de Kooning
“Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.”–Elaine de Kooning...
Eileen Chang
“Ailing there are so numerous novels, but I think no rhetoric, no deliberate modification, there is no graph twists and...
Jhumpa Lahiri
“In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain...
Courtney Barnett
“What’s funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed – like a really romantic idea of a poet, writer or musician – which isn’t really true a lot of...
Janis Joplin
“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and...
Eleanor Roosevelt
“A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in...
Kathleen Hanna
“You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men....
Ani DiFranco
“A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don’t want to call themselves feminists. You have this...
Mahatma Gandhi
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength is meant...
Bell Hooks
“I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.” –Bell Hooks...
Yayoi Kusama
“New York is the place that made my and other artists’ dreams come true by giving us a chance to...
Shreya Ghoshal
“A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the...
Kendrick Lamar
“A war that was based on Apartheid and discrimination made me wanna go back to the city and tell the homies what I learned, the word was respect.” – Kendrick Lamar...