Jake Shimabukuro Quotes
There's nothing I like better than talking to kids, just sharing the music with them. To relate to them, you need to play songs they're familiar with.
Jake Shimabukuro
Quotes to Explore
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine
Maroon 5
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
Yoko Ono
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
Nancy Gibbs
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna
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And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
Patrick Carney
The Black Keys
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
Rachel Bloom
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I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
Gayle Forman
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
Kate Voegele
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
Randy Owen
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I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.
Aaron Paul
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I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
Gavin DeGraw
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Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.
Wendy Kopp
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I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.
Lana Del Rey
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I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog.
Fetty Wap
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If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.
Kate Bush
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I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.
Halima Aden
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While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.
Adam Mansbach
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
Laura Donnelly
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I love working in America!
Ed Oxenbould
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It's great for my daughter to see Beyonce and Taylor Swift, women that are in charge of their own careers, writing songs from their own perspective and taking people to task. That's very different from when I was growing up - it was all like, 'Stand by your man.'
Corin Tucker
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I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.
Dave Brat
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There's nothing I like better than talking to kids, just sharing the music with them. To relate to them, you need to play songs they're familiar with.
Jake Shimabukuro
