A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.
— Verite
I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
— Vera Farmiga
Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.
— Varg Vikernes
Some musicians make and record music; other musicians play in a band... I just make and record music, and I don't feel a part of anything in any music business.
To record an album is cathartic, or at least it was with 'Belus,' but to make music is more fulfilling than anything else, I think.
It probably would be impossible for me to make music and not make it sound like Burzum. This is the music I make and the only music I am able to make, so I have no other options musically.
The spirit of Burzum never changed, but my ability to make music changed dramatically when I was imprisoned. It is more or less impossible to record music in prison, and the only music I could record was electronic music, when I was allowed to have a synthesizer for a few months in 1994 or 1995 and in 1998.
Venom was a joke in the '80s, their heavy metal music sucked big time, and I really have no interest in them - not then, not now.
Burzum is not a political or religious band, or even an anti-religious band. Burzum is music - art if you like - and the interpretation of art lies in the eye of the beholder.
I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.
— Vanilla Ice
I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.
I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.
I prefer to have the music as pure as possible. I don't want to say, 'Oh yes, this is good. This is not good; I have to do it again.' I don't want to do it again. I want to do it once. It's no good, I do another one.
— Vangelis
Every day I paint, and every day I compose music.
I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn't get the sounds I wanted out of the piano.
I'm working on my music - I've taken a little break from it and want to get back into that.
— Vanessa Morgan
The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
— Vanessa Mae
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
— Vera Wang
Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
— Vaughn Monroe
Music is entertainment, and we need that in order not to fall into the pit of despair.
I enjoy making music and take my time to do everything until it is 'perfect.'
Yes, maturity in life brings maturity to the music I make.
Burzum is a projection of me or, at the very least, a projection of a side of me, but you can, of course, view Burzum and Varg as separate entities, as you surely can like the first and dislike the other, or vice versa for that sake, but to me, my music will always be a natural part of me.
I just make music. If you don't like it, you don't need to buy or listen to it.
I must say it was not very inspiring to see that tons of new bands emerged from nowhere and started to play the exact same music as I did. Why would I want to play this type of music, when tons of other bands did, too?
I look forward the day that I could work on my farm, create music, write books, and be with the wife and kids around the clock - and live a normal life.
I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.
I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.
Music dominates the universe. It is the prime force. It has given shape to space.
I'm a composer. I know nothing about money and commercial stuff. I just write music.
I absolutely respect and I believe I serve music.
My father was in property, but he was a great lover of music.
I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
Music is about the performance.
Music is what our feelings sound like.
I don't think the important part of making music is the method used but rather the spirit put into it, so to speak.
I make music, and if anyone wants to dislike it because of my logo, or lack thereof, then fine by me.
My musical roots and inspiration lie not in rock n' roll or metal music, but first and foremost in classical music, balalaika, and in underground house music.
Music is an artform, and I always though art was beyond censorship. I thought this was a common view. Apparently, I was wrong.
Music, for me, was something I did because I was disillusioned after the Cold War's end and did not know what I wanted in life.
Until I was around 12 or 13, I only listened to classical music, mostly Tchaikovsky. But around that age, I started listening to Iron Maiden, and that's when I purchased my first guitar, a pearl-white Westone.
I only want to make music I like and that I can enjoy myself and be proud of.
I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
— Vanity
My main thing is music; it's what I do.
I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.
Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.
If I've made money from music, it was never my aim to do that. I didn't do it to become famous.
My main language was music, and my teacher was nature.
Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.
— Vanessa Williams
Music will always be my greatest passion.
