Music Quotes
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I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.
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For me, writing music is a good way to say what's on my mind. It's less vulnerable in a way, less embarrassing, less exposing to the idea of seeing someone's reaction. The thing about it, though, is you need to be ready... especially if you've got something you're burning to say... even if it's just what some people might think is just a small moment that nobody'd ever bother with or notice.
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When I was in the 10th grade, I decided to run for a position on the student council with the campaign slogan 'Nuthin but a Boz thang,' so you might say joining Beats Music is like coming full circle.
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I don't think there is a clear-cut avenue for what I do, and I am OK with that. I am just a lover of music.
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I knew I loved music, and I knew that I could feel music. So, I knew I had rhythm.
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Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.
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When you set out to carry on a tradition as deep rooted as folk music is, you've got to have your story together. You've got to study and have a foundation. Jeffrey Foucault has that foundation, and you can hear it in his voice, and feel it in his music. He's got an understanding that you don't hear that often.
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I made a promise to be as creative as I could, even outside of music.
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I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece of music, I think our implicit hope is that we're going to find it beautiful, or at least emotional, on some level.
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I think the artists are really the face of the music they make. It's no longer the genre that dictates it.
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I think a lot of musicians play for the playback. I mean, that's the joy of recording - you want to hear what you've done and what you've contributed - but never listening to that playback kind of removes the intellectual part of making music, and it removes the tendency to be revisionist.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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If you're looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.
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But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.
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For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.
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My pure love is playing music.
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That's all I ever wanted to do: put out music from the heart that people could relate to.
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There were some times when I just wanted to quit making music.
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Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through my own music, I was also able to find spirituality for myself.
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All of the musical projects that I am involved with are near and dear to my heart and allow me in a small way to make a contribution to the world of music.
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Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.
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Some people are making music just for numbers and views.
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I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.
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I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.
