Music is the great equalizer.
‘Punk rock’ is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
Music is supposed to be an escape. It’s supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn’t come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, ‘I’m going to make it through all of this.’
With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
I grew up listening to a lot of 2Pac and a lot of East Coast, West Coast rap; Bad Boy, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, Biggie, 2Pac. Super hip-hop, super listening to that raw era of music.
Nothing is written in stone. So don’t prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold. Music was everything from then on.
Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities… much more so than music or language.
Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
I’m basically a music nerd, especially when it comes to electronic music.
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
One of my favorite places I’ve visited is Havana, Cuba. On my way home from Costa Rica, I did a week in Havana. The colors, the music, the beautiful men and the cars! I love vintage and antique cars and own a couple myself.
Apple Music is trying to create an entire pop culture experience that includes audio and video. If South Park walks into my office, I’m not going to say, ‘You’re not musicians.’ We’re going to do whatever hits pop culture smack on the nose.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Distance doesn’t exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal – universal and transporting.
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
I write music with an exclamation point!
Music is an outburst of the soul.
