Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
There’s nothing better than live music. It’s raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.
I’m not into music – the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
Music is a form of prayer.
I don’t like the word ‘urban’ because I think it’s a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don’t think it’s a word that necessarily classes music.
Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul. But soul is soul, and it’s been around; it will never go away.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
Music is the emotional life of most people.
To be an artist, you don’t have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It’s just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
I see music in colours. I love music that’s black, pink, purple or red – but I hate music that’s green, yellow or brown.
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
One of my favorite things to do is to play music really loud and dance my butt off in the morning. I’ll do it alone in my apartment. You can’t have a bad day after that.
I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn’t have anything to prove.
Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
For me, electronic music is like cooking: it’s a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.
Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.
My dad’s name is Robert Stafford. His music name is R. L. Stafford; he makes gospel music.
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
Hip-Hop isn’t just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can’t just call Hip-Hop a trend!
