Music Quotes
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People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.
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Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
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Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.
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Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
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We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.
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I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
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When I got home, I was trying to figure out how to be home. Like, be home in a sense that had nothing to do with music.
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I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].
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Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box with their music.
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In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia had a tradition that was very distinct and unique.
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Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.
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Trying to put music out there in the world is a pretty exciting, yet terrifying, thing and I've just been through the ringer.
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I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.
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There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.
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What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because audience members are constantly part of the experience. What they say in their body language, what they say in their eyes, what they sing with me... it's an 'us,' and there's a communication that's like... it's like church, man.
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You have to change musically. Bubble gum pop was good for the first time you have sex. They didn't want to give the OK on some really good music. It was the frustration of being signed to that label. I was depressed.
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One of the most important times in my life was the first time that I remember seeing my daddy get onstage and play music with a bunch of guys. All of them playing something different at the same time and all becoming one, and me soaking that in at 5 years old and going, 'That's my daddy up there, and he's a part of something.'
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I believe singing should be like being an actor. People shouldn't have any problem buying an actor being in a comedy or a drama or a horror film. That should be the same way with music.
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I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.
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My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality music, high-quality art. G.O.O.D. Music is entrenched in the culture of hip-hop. It's entrenched in the culture, period.
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I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with.
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My real motivation came from my quest for music videos to have the equally soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does. Honestly, I'm not sure they ever can.
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It has come to be known as sub-standard music. When people hear that they immediately shut you off.
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Swavey, it puts more than one genre of music together. That's the approach I have with all music I do.
