Keith Sweat Quotes
Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.
Quotes to Explore
-
Love is a beautiful feeling.
-
Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
-
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
-
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
-
Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
-
When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
-
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.
-
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
-
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
-
You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.
-
I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
-
Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
-
I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
-
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.
-
I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.
-
I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you're trying to make.
-
Music is what our feelings sound like.
-
The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
-
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
-
Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
-
Being from New York, living in L.A., being in Chicago, you kind of get more of the big-city, melting-pot sort of thing. But when you drive through the country, there's so many small pockets of people that don't experience people of different backgrounds. So what they've seen on television is their baseline.
-
But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
-
At home, I have lot of pictures from 'The Walking Dead' and some stuff from comic books. At comic conventions, people will give me a lot of autographed stuff, so a lot of those are on my wall.
-
Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.
