Music Quotes

The music industry is a world of smoke and mirrors: they tell you exactly what they think you want to hear. And they are bare-faced lying. I tend to stay away from that.

Kelis Rogers
- World
- Music
The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

W. E. B. Du Bois
- People
- World
- Children

Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.

Bat for Lashes
It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

Yo-Yo Ma
- World
- Community
- Garden
It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

Wanda Jackson
- Kind
- Popular
- See
Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.

Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
- Loud
- Novelty
- Pointless
But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.

Ice Cube
- Time
- Energy
- Team
I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm going all out in those terms.

D'Angelo
- Soul
- Black
- Boundaries