Suga (Min Yoon-gi) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
-
But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
-
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
-
When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
-
I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
-
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
-
I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
-
The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
-
There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
-
I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
-
I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
-
It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
-
I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.
-
We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.
-
People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
-
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.
-
We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.
-
I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
-
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
-
Acting was my first love before music.
-
Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.
-
Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.
-
Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives.
-
We will come back with even better music and concepts to be able to say goodbye to 'The Most Beautiful Moment in Life' beautifully.