Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
— Yanni
I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
— Yann Tiersen
Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
— Yann Martel
I really want my music to go mainstream.
— Yandel
At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.'
I'm the youngest of six kids, and I grew up with a lot of noise, a lot of music, and a lot of laughter.
— Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
— Yael Naim
English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
What I miss is a time when hip-hop music had integrity; there was some kind of message. Not in all the music, because it's not for that, but there was at least something that got through that had some content that was sensible and positive, not just hooky junk-food rap.
— Xzibit
I love the music, I love who I am. So that is the driving force to make everything else work.
Money is part of the game, but let's take this music as musicians to the next level, don't be recycling beats over and over and over again.
Music is the best way I can express myself, meaning that why I write and how I came to love music comes out through Xzibit. Who I am, who Alvin Joiner is, comes out when I pick up that pen and write.
I listen to this mix of smooth jazz, independent hip-hop, chiptunes, and anime music.
— Xavier Woods
The music industry is not set up well at all, environmentally. But I sing about what I feel, and I'm very inspired by activists and friends that I get to connect with.
— Xavier Rudd
I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
— Xavier Dolan
It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.
I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
— Yancy Butler
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
— Yahoo Serious
My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
I don't have to, like, try to come out with pop music because I feel that that's gonna make me sell a lot more. I mean, I make the music I love to make and that's it.
Music is my heart.
My music is the foundation of everything that I do, and my fans make it possible for me to keep recording.
As hip-hop artists, you have to take the music seriously, not just as a way to get rich.
The experiences that I've had in the music industry have given me a learning curve.
I love New Zealand and don't get to come there much. The south coast of Australia and New Zealand have a similar vibration, and a lot of the music comes from this kind of space.
The spirit of yidaki is like a guardian for the song and the journey of my music.
I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.
Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
— Xavi
I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
The 'Dangerous' album has producers like Tiny, who to me is very special. Also, Luny Tunes, Nesty La Mente Maestra, Nelly La Arma Secreta, Haze, and El Ingeniero. I wanted to use everyone who makes music in Puerto Rico and beyond to have variety.
My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.
— Yael Stone
Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
I definitely have the love for music.
I'm in a unique position in that my career in music is not over and I have other television things and ventures I can get into. So, it's like I can be very selective when it comes to movie roles.
It feels good to be able to go from music to film and have a good transition and be given the opportunities I've been given.
The landscape of the music business has changed and I definitely have to take advantage of that.
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
— Xun Kuang
My music is roots music: it's a combination of growing up on the coast and mucking around with wood and wooden tones and sounds, salt, sand, fire, dogs, and heaps of brothers.
The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
