Quotes About Music

I have this Martin electric/acoustic that's made of black formica. Really cool.

I really want to produce a record for Mary J. Blige.

I still know the lyrics to pretty much any 'Mary Poppins' song.

The musical style and sound of 'Love You to Death' is something I wanted to do from the moment I started working on this album. It's a very masculine track with dramatic lyrics.

I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.

I grew up listening to a lot of Massive Attack and Portishead.

I'm massively inspired by 'True Blue'-era Madonna, but she is absolutely confident and in control of the situation.

Eminem is a master.

I watch Renee Fleming a lot. I listen to Renee Fleming a lot. She was like my built-in master class.

I wish I could say I had this master plan for a career, but I always thought acting was something I'd just do until I had a hit record.

We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.

'Sandinista!' is a masterpiece.

I think 'War Eternal' - if I'm allowed to say it - for me, it's a masterpiece.

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

I want to own my masters. That's the main thing--owning all my music.

Looking back on it now, I felt that I was blessed much like the masters, I guess - the guys who wrote the concertos.

Music is first for me. How the music makes me feel, it's like energy. It has to match my life. What's happening around me or to me. That's where it comes from.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

Music is what I care about. Not material things.

I've got a lot of girl mates. Especially when you come to Ibiza and you're an Ibiza DJ, everyone comes out and they want to see you.

I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.

I don't care about the world. What matters the most to me is my maa and my music. That's it!

Yes, maturity in life brings maturity to the music I make.

We've been branded 'the thinking man's hip-hop.' So the music's got to have some level of maturity.