Ali Shaheed Muhammad Quotes
Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I'm here. But that's just me.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.
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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.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
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I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
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I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
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I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.
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Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles.
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Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.
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pp. 56–57
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Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.
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It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start off with the music and it kinds of propels the lyrics. It made me feel like I was in a car, leaving something, a bad situation. There's an emotion there. I remembered all the times I wanted to leave.
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Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I'm here. But that's just me.
