Quotes About Community

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

The only lifestyle I'm promoting is the lifestyle of love and friendship. The lifestyle of music, and joy, and fashion. So whoever wants to come and get part of that lifestyle, we accept anybody.

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

Music has never been at a better time then it is right now, we're really lucky to be a part of this wonderful thing called music.

Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.

My favorite place in the whole world is Nashville. Because it's my home, it's Music City. It's like, everybody there is so artistic and so creative, and nice! Everybody's really friendly.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

The thing about Nashville is, it's not just country music...There's rock & roll, there's every kind of music. It's just a music town...There's so much fun stuff to get in to.

Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

I grew up in the country surrounded by music.

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way

Taylor deserves it. I don't think there is anyone with half a brain that would say otherwise. She has done a lot for us in country music. We are lucky enough in country music to call her one of us.

At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.

I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.

Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.