Music Quotes
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Fashion is like music, and when you put music in a cage it doesn't work.
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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.
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I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.
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Our music contradicts our look.
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If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should be. It's like trying to explain what a piece of music is like. You can't do it.
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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
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There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
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I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very self-destructive state where we're addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.
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The more music you love, the happier you will be.
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I still miss music and singing. One day, I'm going to sing with a big band.
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You gotta be, like, a professional hippie. You need to make music because you love it.
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I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.
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The earth has music for those who listen.
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If you love music, than you can play music.
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I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.
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Music & Fashion; it all comes from the same place of creativity.
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Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered.
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Music isn't only a profession.
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The movement is stronger, what is happening is like everyone is sharing the music with their peers that are not Africans, more clubs are playing the songs, so people are consuming the music in larger numbers.
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Sometimes it feels like my story overshadows my music.
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We're turning into the society that is accepting the force-feed. I don't quite understand why we're going for the things we're going for. There's no process of elimination anymore in music. They have these grooming schools, these things, and they're turning out these clones, and the music is sounding so refined that it's not even interesting.
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I guess the bottom line is I don't make music that is consumed en masse.
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I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.
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As I listened more and more to the music that moved me, I gained more fascination with America.
