Sidney Royel Selby III (Desiigner) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
-
When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
-
I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
-
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
-
I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
-
Country music is three chords and the truth.
-
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
-
I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.
-
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
-
Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
-
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
-
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
-
I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
-
I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
-
I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.
-
My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
-
Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
-
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
-
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
-
Three of us will help the other two get suited up, get them in the hatch, and get them out the door.
-
There's a wide spectrum between a Navy SEAL hero-killer and a traumatized victim, but those are the archetypes - hashed and rehashed in the media, in popular culture, in the minds of people with a lot of preconceived notions but not much else.
-
I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it.
-
The world shows us what we need at a specific moment in time.
-
I'm my own favorite artist, but I love everybody's music.
