Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music.
— Zarin Mehta
That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.
— Zara Larsson
For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
— Zakk Wylde
I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
If you think about it, when you listen to music, music makes you cry. It makes you happy. It makes you dance. It makes you mad. Those are the same emotions that I experience when I feel the energy of a spirit when I'm contacting the spirit and communicating with it.
— Zak Bagans
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
— Zaha Hadid
Only a world spinning out of control could inspire the music and vision we have now.
— Zacky Vengeance
After 'City of Evil,' the world was still kind of apprehensive about Avenged Sevenfold. They didn't know if we were a serious band or just some kids trying to play really ambitious music with crazy guitar parts that would be here one minute and gone the next.
When you start running out of things to do on a guitar, you have to find other ways of making music with your instrument.
I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
— Zack de la Rocha
Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
— Zach Braff
I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
— Zac Efron
I didn't think I liked country music. Then I got into Garth Brooks.
— Zac Brown
Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work - what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.
I'm no different than any other human being. I play music for a living, and we're very blessed.
We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
I think she's so cool, but I personally don't think I sound like Rihanna! But when I first released my music, I did get that comparison a lot. I never really thought about that, but it's a good thing. She's awesome.
I loved 'Terminator 2' as a teenager and 'Sound of Music' when I was a kid. I also loved 'Requiem For A Dream' as a college student and 'Mulholland Drive.' And I have loved 'Lincoln' as an adult. They are all the same, as they are all good stories and extraordinary actors.
— Zal Batmanglij
You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.
Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.
The idea behind 'NecroFusion' came about when Praga Khan of Lords of Acid contacted me after I started making a bunch of Twitter posts about how big a fan I was. Lords of Acid was my favorite band in high school, and Praga is a true pioneer of that style of electronic music.
I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
When we were trying to come up with a concept for our music video for 'The Stage' we basically run through a lot of different ideas, and ultimately, I sat and studied the lyrics that Matt had written - and they really resonated with me.
'Waking the Fallen' truly encompasses everything that Avenged Sevenfold was at that time. It was us being fearless, us showing our roots in heavy metal, punk, rock n' roll, and not being afraid to try everything under the sun when it comes to writing music.
Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
— Zack Snyder
I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.
My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
— Zach Anner
I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
All my siblings being all different ages meant I got exposed to music that was 20-30 years older than me. And that was a big influence.
I'm opinionated because I care so much about the music and the songs.
Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
Good music makes you feel something.
We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.
That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on.
You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.
Depending on how I'm feeling that day or the music I'm listening to, I will pick appropriate lighting to help create the atmosphere for me. I use a lot of blues and purples.
Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
We wanted to incorporate lights and the like to really accentuate the music. We play mostly small venues, so we don't use it overboard by any means. The most important thing is the music. I think we do a good job of letting that show.
I think we are really in touch with what's going on around us in the world of music, trying to push the bar forward and try new and exciting things that our fans can react to.
My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.
'Watchmen' is like the music you feel is written just for you. 'That's my song, no one else gets that but me.' That's why the fan base is so rabid, because they feel personal about it.
I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
— Zac Hanson
I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.
My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old music.
I was a music fan first way before I started creating it, so I still get giddy when I get to be around people that I respect so much.
The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
