Music is passionate. It’s love for me.
I’ve got songs that sample ‘Mario Bros.,’ ‘Charlie Brown,’ the ‘Rugrats’ theme, the music that plays when you turn on a Gamecube.
I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations – some large and some small.
I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you’re in Nashville. It’s part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.
The trick of Afrobeats is it doesn’t just move your upper body, it moves your hips as well, and I think that’s what people have been missing in popular music for a while. I think that’s what people need around the world.
I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.
Pop music will never be low brow.
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
Rick Ross is bigger to me than Dizzee Rascal. My music is more gangsta rap than anything English.
The overall vision for ‘Utopia’ was somewhat of a mix between fantasy, future, and ancient China. All of it soaked in a pastel space sauce to capture the uber positive energy of the music.
For me, music and life are all about style.
I’m just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that.
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.
I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.
Music soothes you, especially when you write, sing or play an instrument. It really can be a cure for everything.
I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical – even if the movies have no music in them at all.
I believe in the future of country music, but a future without roots is like a kite with no string.
Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.
I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold.
Music needs room to breathe.
The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.
We’re in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let’s face it, that’s it.
I may just keep releasing singles ‘til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way – as long as people don’t go, ‘Oh my God, not another one!’
