Music Quotes
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When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.
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I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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I get to go make music, and I get paid to do it, and this is what people love me for. I couldn't ask for anything greater, so how could I not go in the studio and make a million songs?
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It's hard to make music when you're not excited about it. So trying new things and going for new things is something that I can enjoy doing.
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I go stay a week in these little towns that don't have an art outlet and... go to the schools and play some of the old Texas music, sort of 'go through the Texas country roots' is what they call it.
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Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.
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My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.
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It's a wonderful way to get at who someone is through their own love of music and going right at their subconsciousness if you will. You don't play girl singers for girl singers. You know, there's certain things. You do play Ellington for Bobby McFerrin.
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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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I look up to Mandy Moore, because she's really classy. But when it comes to music, I'm my own person.
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Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.
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I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
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I love to make music and stay grounded.
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With Sync technology, we're seamlessly connected to the Internet, hands-free, and able to focus on the road but also able to handle guidance and navigation and play your music.
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I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.
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I think fans going to concerts expect more today in terms of meeting and things. It's cool - I get it because of how the Internet has made things much more personal for fans to follow with Facebook, Twitter and everything - but I also think it's kind of hindering because it takes from the music in a way.
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The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.
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I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me to do that, through my own music, through listening to other people's music.
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When I travel too much, it affects the music, and that is the most important thing. As long as I make good music, I can play shows, but if the music starts getting bad, the show offers won't come.
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The music is what sustains the player from beginning to end. That’s where you get your life from. That’s why you play jazz.
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Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.
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I don't care for music, I don't care for scenery, I don't care for women...I like bridge.
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Performing with Thomas Rhett our song 'Craving You,' I'm so excited for the fans to see it and sort of see our worlds come together because I feel like he's sort of a genre pusher and boundary pusher, and I feel the same way about my music.
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I don't put myself in any box or say that I can't work on any kind of music. I'm not just a producer that only makes urban music.
