Quotes About Music

I felt like I plateaued at playing drums, like I wasn't getting any better. I bought an electric pair of drums, sold my drum set, and got introduced to making beats.

I met Les Paul when I was about 5. I was taken to see him perform and the place was sold out, just packed and full of really great musicians.

We sold 1.5 million copies of the 'Abracadabra' album and 26,000 copies of 'Italian X-Rays.'

To have a No. 1 with 130,000 copies sold is, you know, I remember when we first started selling records, in order to have a No. 1, you'd have to sell at least a half a million if not more, for the rock side of things.

I've never sold a lot of records.

We always thought if 'Beauty and the Beat' sold even 100,000 copies, we'd be real happy and a successful group, so when it reached a million... Hey, we just laughed about it.

We had sold a lot of copies of the 'Miami' album without being racked by some of the big distributors.

I keep growing my fan base. My last project 'Heartless' sold more mixtapes than some big artists on major label albums.

Erykah Badu sang with me at a sold out show in San Francisco which was great.

I write songs with melodies, which have sold for decades.

I don't feel like I deserve to have to do a guitar pull with four brand-new artists when I've sold millions of records.

The reception on 'P2' has been crazy. Every show on the tour has been sold-out. I didn't think people were gonna catch on to it that quick because I started the tour the same day it came out.

A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

I remember in 2016 when I got signed to my record label Good Soldier, which is a very small indie label. They took a big risk on me because ballads were the furthest thing from cool at the time.

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.

When I first played New York, it was with James Brown at the Apollo, and I was playing in a band under the name The Valentinos. I remember Sam Cooke saying, 'I want you to go in there with James Brown. I couldn't be as hard on you as James Brown would be.' But we came out marching like soldiers.

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

I can't even tell anyone how it feels when I'm acting, I don't mean to say that I don't have to try. But there's something in my heart that explodes, and I feel like I understand. When I'm acting, I feel like so in control and so centered. This is something that I solely get from acting and music. It's like love itself.

Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious.

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.