Imaani (Imaani Saleem) Quotes
I understand you guys know what you want and you stick with it. For me…as long as it’s soulful, and soulful to me is all kinds of music. You have soulful rock, soulful house…you’ve got soul R&B, there’s just so much of it. I don’t want to be pigeonholed into one particular genre. As long as it’s good, that’s what I’m interested in.Imaani Incognito
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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 -
There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
Beck -
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden -
I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
Mandy Moore -
When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.
Sabrina Bryan
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
Saffron Aldridge -
Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.
J. K. Simmons -
My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
Zola Jesus -
My music is jazz.
Yusef Lateef -
'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.
Ian Anderson -
Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.
Gary Allan
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I open the debate… The 2nd verse of New Slaves is the best rap verse of all time….meaning … OF ALL TIME IN THE HISTORY OF RAP MUSIC, PERIOD
Kanye West -
Just because I make something doesn't mean that it's going to be amazing, and most creative people don't like to admit when their music is just okay.
Jason Boyd -
I write about love, but it's me wanting to be in love. I've never been in love. I love my mom, my dad. I want to be in love. I think I have to allow myself to get there. I'm just so in love with music. It's weird. I'm at a crossroads because I want to be in love.
Charlie Puth -
My sisters and I like a lot of different styles of music, but we're inspired by real artists like Beyonce and Adele.
China Anne McClain -
People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.
Charles Hazlewood -
I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.
Charlie Haden
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I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.
Keke Palmer -
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.
Michael Stipe R.E.M. -
In fact if you're a mother or a father, you're filled with oxytocin when you have a child. It makes you love the baby, even though they look like a lizard .You'll think it's the beautiful thing in the world.
Anthony Robbins -
Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.'
Rachel Nichols -
I understand you guys know what you want and you stick with it. For me…as long as it’s soulful, and soulful to me is all kinds of music. You have soulful rock, soulful house…you’ve got soul R&B, there’s just so much of it. I don’t want to be pigeonholed into one particular genre. As long as it’s good, that’s what I’m interested in.
Imaani Incognito