Music Quotes
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I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.
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With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.
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I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
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I think it's important to add a personal aspect to your music - that's what makes it authentic at the end of the day.
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I'm against people downloading music.
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The first thing you learn about the music business is that it changes very quickly. You come into it at a certain point and you think you have a handle on it... And then, three years later, the whole thing has been turned upside-down.
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I started making music by myself and figuring all of that on my own.
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I'm serious about the music, but I'm not serious about the fantasy. It's no big deal being on TV!
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I had to have a lot of jobs until I was supporting myself through music, but I knew that those jobs were all leading me to something. It was all, again, about taking things one step at a time, one day at a time.
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Music became my refuge and then my salvation.
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I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album.
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In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film and dance.
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You've got to look at yourself as what I call a lifer. You're going to be out there playing music your whole life, in a live situation. That's what sends me out into the world, and as I see this beautiful world, I want to do more and contribute more, and stay in a position to do more and contribute more.
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In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here.
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Worship the music, not the musicians.
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Nobody picked up guns in those days. You put on music, and it made you feel great.
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I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.
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For me, I'm very visually inspired. I'm more inspired by photographs and movies than I am by listening to other music, so for me to create an amazingly intense visual live show is a dream, so I would love to be on that level for sure.
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I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
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But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.
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I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.
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I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007.
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I like lowriders and music from the '50s and '60s. A lot of people assumed I was Mexican.
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I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.
