Anthony Santos (Romeo Santos) Quotes
I create the music, and if this artist could complement this record, I reach out.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
-
I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
-
Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
-
If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
-
I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.
-
I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
-
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
-
Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
-
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
-
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
-
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
-
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
-
I've been loving music all my life.
-
I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
-
Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
-
I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
-
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.
-
Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
-
People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I'm not feeling very motivated.
-
'The 100' has such ferociously passionate fans.
-
Since I was a kid, I always wanted to figure out how to make a bass line that was a pendulum - like, gravity would control it, and then you could make it play different notes.
-
But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.
-
Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.
-
I create the music, and if this artist could complement this record, I reach out.
