Music Quotes
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Dance music was on its arse before we came along.
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The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
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But not to have music would be unnatural to me.
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I soon forgot storm in music.
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The power of music is real.
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I'm in a car so much on tour that I often just ask my friends to DJ and ask them what they like. That's the best way I discover music.
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I think all groups who don't fit in clearly with Western music have to think, 'How can I expand my market? Where else can I perform?'
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When I do music I don't do it with a purpose in mind. I just feel like it's a little bit contrived if you try to do something like that. It's got to come organically.
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I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
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Music was always in my blood but my dad being a musician made me want to love something else so my efforts went towards sports and dance. I always new in the back of my mind that I wanted to be a performer and not until my life got a little more complicated did music present itself as my only option.
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One of my favorites is 'The Sound of Music'. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up.
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I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.
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I would love to be able to say that due to my experience in the music industry, when it comes to the songs, I'm killing it over anybody else, but that is not the case. Everybody in this thing is ridiculously talented to where I don't feel special.
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Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.
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A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way about playing John Madden Football immediately after filing my income tax: It's fun, but - somehow - vaguely pathetic.
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One good thing about music, when it hits-you feel no pain. ... My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. ... Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ... My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
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Critics try to pin so many different inaccuracies on me and my music; they look at the complicated things and try to simplify them. They think they can nail your whole life down just by knowing the bare bones of your history in partaking in 10 minutes of conversation.
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What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
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I've delved into a lot of non-musical projects. Learning new things and accomplishing things with my hands that I put aside as an adult to devote all my time to music. As I've gotten older, I've been concentrating on quality and no filler, and spending more time constructing all of the parts of music, rather than going into the studio with one or two parts and then letting the rest work itself out.
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Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
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I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped me in music.
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My touring isn't about collecting souvenirs and always being on the go. My souvenirs are writing in my journal and creating new music, because that fits easily into my backpack when I'm travelling around the world. It's something that I can share later with fans or with future family members.
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The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.
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I would never get married in a conventional way; I'd have the 'Curb' music as the union music.
