Miriam Makeba
Related ACTION BRONSON When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a ... NATHANIEL RATELIFF BRANFORD MARSALIS AUSTIN MAHONE Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have ... PAOLO SORRENTINO I'm just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there&#... TRISTAN WILDS No, I'm a flirtatious person; I'll flirt all day long, but it really is hard to get into tha... MISSY ELLIOTT God put me on this earth to bring souls back to the Kingdom of God. You don't need to pray ten t... TORY LANEZ I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me. BERNIE WORRELL I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used be... WAYNE MCGREGOR SUFJAN STEVENS Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a... ALICIA KEYS I don't think there is much American music. HARRISON BIRTWISTLE American people are very patriotic, but there is no driver to get behind and support. I don't se... ALEXANDER ROSSI DONNIE YEN ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT SAM SMITH I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don't ... KYP MALONE I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, li... GARRETT CLAYTON NINA SIMONE MARCUS SAMUELSSON I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that ... DON BLUTH GARY ALLAN ARMAAN MALIK GIGI HADID Music is something that I have to do on a regular basis. It really is my life and I absolutely love ... JOJO DAVID SEDARIS NICK JONAS I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to Ame... BEN MENDELSOHN I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to ... CHERYL JAMES I don't really listen to my old music. JOHN GRANT DAVID SANBORN Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is... DAN AUERBACH MIKKO HYPPONEN I don't aspire to be a sex icon, I don't know why anyone would. It's an uncomfortable po... BILLY HOWLE I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour. VINCE NEIL If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play ... CHRISTIAN MARCLAY ETTA JAMES I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life. NEIL YOUNG With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I&#... ESTELLE I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a ... CHRIS ISAAK LIL WAYNE I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a l... TIMBALAND TERRI WINDLING JACK OSBOURNE CHRIS MARTIN PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON Most days, we don't get to the 'SNL' studio until noon. On Monday, we pitch the host, an... AIDY BRYANT If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly g... ERIC SAN MARCUS SAMUELSSON I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to t... WAGNER MOURA I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and the... TAIO CRUZ My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see... DEBORAH COX DR. DRE MICHAEL STIPE DORIS DAY I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really ... MIKE TROUT I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my fr... NATALIA KILLS It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's... K'NAAN MATT KEMP JACKSON BROWNE SPIKE LEE So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy'... JAMES YOUNG PETER GABRIEL If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just ... HANS ZIMMER KEHLANI CASS MCCOMBS HENRY CAVILL What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, d... MICKEY HART There's a whole load of stuff in life that is worth documenting. You see it every day but don... JAN CHIPCHASE DYLAN MORAN I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't kn... FRANK OZ HARRY DEAN STANTON There's just so much love that goes into home cooking, and I think it will really help the Ameri... MING-NA WEN I like to dabble in different things, but music is my first love. It connects to me in a way my side... EVE BAT FOR LASHES WYNTON MARSALIS It's certain rappers that can really rap, that really spit all bars, so I understand why someone... TY DOLLA SIGN One of my favorite things to do is to play music really loud and dance my butt off in the morning. I... ALLISON WILLIAMS I don't work all day, every day on 'Rizzoli & Isles,' but I work every day. It may b... BRUCE MCGILL I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry n... JOHN FRUSCIANTE What's important is that people realize that I can't be put into a box musically. I've s... TREY SONGZ The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music... JONATHAN GALASSI I have a day job Monday to Friday. I work at a record label in Brooklyn called Ba Da Bing. It's ... SHARON VAN ETTEN JOHN BURDETT KEVIN GATES I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes t... MITCHEL MUSSO KENNY G EMMA WATSON All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. ... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA When you're on set all day, and you don't look people in the eye, it's really relaxing. ... RYAN CARTWRIGHT PETER SINGER My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS WYNTON MARSALIS TIM BURTON I think that's one of the biggest problems in the world - we don't look at one another; we d... LEILA BEKHTI SHARON JONES It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't lik... MARK HOPPUS AMY GRANT I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nic... DAVID SYLVIAN
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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long,... 
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it ho... 
Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to pu... 
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... 
I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seei... 
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to mus... 
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I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rappin... 
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