Music Quotes

I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it.

To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.

But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.

I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

I've always had a love of country music.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.

My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.