I used to be a film and music journalist, and wrote for different magazines in the 1990s. I still love music, but the experience destroyed my enthusiasm for film.
I would largely attribute my identity – as it relates to music labels and corporate music giants – to Dave Chappelle and his relationship to and firm standing in Hollywood.
God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
Ultimately, you’re looking for a soulful experience when you listen to any form music.
You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you’re writing your own music, then it’s important to be really honest.
Music gave me that neutral lane to relate with everyone.
Music inspires some feeling in you. That’s the same way I think about Uber.
I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.
Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.
When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.
Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that’s one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I’m just telling you from my heart, I’m so in love with life.
Music makes me cry.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I don’t think music should be free.
Once a week, I don’t eat for 24 or 30 hours. Your brain becomes very lucid about ideas. It also made me so grateful for food and for life, basically, and that’s why a lot more joy is coming through our music, I think.
I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
I only write music for myself, I don’t try and appeal to anyone else.
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
The ‘60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
Good music will always be recognized in the end.
You see the music videos and the bling and the cars, but all of that goes home at the end of the shoot. They make nothing because there’s less and less money in the music industry.
Music is fun, but I’m an ice skater. I may sing songs and do shows, make movies and other things… that’s all well and good and I enjoy it, and I would never trade any of those for anything. But figure skating is who I am.
To me, country music is like the blues, but it’s something very hip and – I don’t want to say commercial – but it’s very worldly and good listening.
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
I like movies, because it’s kind of a combination of every art, it’s like it’s picture, it’s story, it’s music, it’s kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It’s really neat.
Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres.
