“Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.” WorldIndividualHighestMusic IsSpeedPopular MusicElevating Author:Conor Oberst
“The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much as the public and we were in love with them just the same way. But we were four individuals who eventually recovered our individualities after being submerged in a myth.” WayMindBelieveLongWholeUsedIndividualMusicFourMusic IsDiedIndividualityMythSubmerged Author:John Lennon
“Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.” MadeArtistSongIndividualMusic IsBeing TrueSubtleBe True To YourselfTrue To Yourself Author:Win Butler
“You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.” FirstsMadeRunningFacesFallIndividualRiskPleaseMusic IsPursuitYour FacePlease Yourself Author:Mark Lanegan
“What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because John said. I don't want to have to endure that kind of nonsense. I work for the art of the individual.” WantKindArtSaidIndividualAudienceMusic IsEndureAffairNonsenseInternalsDislikeInternal Affairs Author:John Lydon
“When I give a concert, I know they're not going to hear everything; there might be a lot going on. My individual perceptual and cognitive path through the music is just that: one path through music. My experience will be probably at some level different from other people's, and that multiplicity of experience has to be supported by the music. I might just focus on the cowbell the whole time - maybe I have a fever for more cowbell!” GivingDifferentIndividualPathFocusMusic IsMultiplicity Author:Vijay Iyer
“I think it all comes back to the individual. My instrument's just a pile of metal and wood! If you listen to the way I speak I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument that concept comes through very clearly. In fact some people who've seen me play have noticed that I'm singing - but it's more that I'm actually speaking. So it's not really about the instrument. But for me, in my thinking, the music is all about the melody. When I compose, 99 percent of the time I start with the melody.” PeopleThinkingIndividualSpeakMusic IsSingingRhythmMelodyMetals Author:Stefon Harris
“Music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so again I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.” PeopleIndividualPleasureJudgingMusic IsPlease Yourself Author:Greg Dulli