Quotes About Music

I'm fortunate enough to socialize with some of the greatest musicians around.

Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.

There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a 'social consciousness' concept album disguised as a country record.

The environment of San Francisco has so much history to it that I really appreciate. Musically, socially, and culturally. There's this new culture of people; it's a crazy place to be.

Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.

I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.

I think it should be socially acceptable for men to like 'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt.

Even people that are close to me or people that are acquaintances... The only question I get now is, 'How is music going?' It's an overpowering quality of my life now, the fact that I write songs. It's weird to navigate what that means socially.

I'm not inherently the most politically or, like, socially conscious rapper, you know? You're not just going to wake up tomorrow and be Common.

I don't fit into a group very well socially. And that might be reflected in my music.

I have songs - even from my first album, I've always been on some socially conscience/love whatever music, you know?

No matter what road I take, I can never get too far away from the conscious lyric and the socially conscious content.

I've always been known for making socially conscious music in the midst of the love songs and the bedroom songs.

You're either in music socially and culturally to get through life, or you're not.

Thinking about the artists I've loved through the years, my favorites are the ones who've made music with cultural, societal and political significance.

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

When I first started recording music, we would record in the closet with socks on the mic.

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

If you noticed, I wear high-water pants and white socks, which is inspired by the mod '60s, like the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, what have you. That style of dress during that time is really, really dope to me.

I could come home, and I would spend the rest of the night just lying on the floor or the sofa listening to albums. It was like a movie to me. I still do, really, and doing the radio show ensures that I'll be sitting there listening.

I used to go to the Church of the Harvest, right off Adams and La Brea. There was a pastor there who had the best big choir and the best band. He would start praying, and the music would start playing and just make people feel so good, you could break out of whatever you were going through. Soft music can have that effect, too.

Women all have our hard days, and we have our soft days. And there's a lot of music that doesn't make us feel as beautiful and good as we are.

I would enjoy sitting in a rocker... listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution.

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light.