Music Quotes
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My music is inspired by where I am and what I'm feeling at the time. Traveling and meeting new people is also incredibly inspiring to me.
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I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did voice training and piano lessons, and while I was a decent musician, it didn't seem like enough for me. I felt like I wanted to make more than just music.
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For me, getting my personality across is so important in getting that connection for people that enjoy my music.
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It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.
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I know I'm a really good drummer, but there are tons of great musicians out here and I was just really worried about what the fuck I was gonna do. It was an era in my life when I was dating again and you know, being in a band is like being involved with a girlfriend because there's a lot of time, a lot of commitment.
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I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.
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There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money, it doesn't make it good. If it's good, it's good.
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I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.
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I love what I do. I love playing music.
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Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.
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We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
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My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
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I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.
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There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.
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There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us.
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Images and music are very connected.
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The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.
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I'm a hip-hop head, but hip-hop actually introduced me to other genres of music because I started to wonder where a lot of these samples came from. So I fell in love with Bobby Womack or Willie Hutch because I wanted to know where those samples came from.
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The Grammys are just the pinnacle of music.
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I try and wake up relatively early. I listen to some music and check Twitter. I also make sure I weigh myself and check how long I slept. I do that because knowing that data seems better than not knowing it.
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There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.
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No medium is more limited than any other. It's what a person does with it. We could talk about the differences between music and literature and photography, sure, but it really comes down to what a person does.
