Sports without music, it’s nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.
Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that’s why garage bands started springing up everywhere.
Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.
My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship – the idea that black people are from outer space, there’s a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.
The music industry as a whole needs to genuinely make a conscious effort to look after people’s physical and mental health.
I need drama in my life to keep making music.
I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole ‘enigmatic artist’ thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.
My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there’s a gooey, dark chocolate center.
I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.
From the beginning, I felt that Heavy Metal is not just about music but also something that you feel with your heart. It is music that helps you express your emotions and feelings.
There’s nothing better than lifting somebody’s spirit with music.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
I’m not a fan of anybody music who I feel like a sucka. I don’t listen to you. They play you in the club, you can have the #1 jam, but if I know your character, how can I listen to your music?
I was thinking of the parallel between the ocean, the life and the music. The ocean is everything. It’s calm, but brave – it’s life.
Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
The fact of the matter is, if music is something that you want to do, you need to stick with it with the idea that you’re going to do it until it works.
I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
Even in high school, I went through a lot of relationship issues, and that’s at the center of my music.
The ‘60s are my favorite decade – with the Cold War, the women’s movement. And then there’s the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.
We do this for the art, not the adulation. I’d rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don’t want to be adored for anything other than the music.
I think that’s what it is with rock music. It helps you hang tough, I guess.
My talent is my talent. I ain’t really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.
The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind’s music, medicine and knowledge.
