Music Quotes

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

I listen to gospel music.

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.

Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.

I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.

Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.

Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

I have a real issue with radio these days. I just am not into the current music.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.