Music Quotes
-
I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
-
If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I'll die someday, and one day, they will too.
-
When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.
-
I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope.
-
Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
-
Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
-
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'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.
-
In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
-
I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.
-
Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
-
If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.
-
As a city, Chicago really affords me an environment that I am really happy creating in. It's an easy place to live in a lot of ways; it's a great community to be making music in.
-
I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
-
I was 10 years old when I first heard Ginuwine. I remember being at a friend's house, and the music video came on. I was just like, 'What is that?' I was just kind of drawn from there.
-
I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.
-
Music is like the soul of the planet.
-
When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.
-
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
-
He is made one with Nature: there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird.
-
It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
-
I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
-
Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
-
Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
