Quotes About Music

I hate playing the bass, bro. I've been playing the bass because it's there and I don't want anyone else to play it.

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

I find the more I DJ, the more ideas I have and the more music I want to make.

I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it's like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed.

I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

I just woke up one day when I was six and I wanted to play the violin. Then, six years later, I didn't want to play the violin, but I wanted to sing and play the guitar.

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

Eventually you're going to have a digital transfer anyway when you make a CD, so it doesn't matter as long as what you're hitting first is what you want it to be.

These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.

If it works for the piece of music, I'm going to use it. I don't want to be limited any more than [Bob] Dylan wanted to be limited by not using an electric guitar.

I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act.

I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.

I've got a lot of energy at my shows, I'm very performative; that gave me the idea, I want to try to translate that into a musical project, having the same energy I have onstage and on my album.

I'm not in competition with nobody. I want to make good music for my fans who want it, who enjoy it, who learn something from it. And that's what it is.

I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.

Because you're a woman, the music industry puts you in another corner. I want to be fighting with the men. I want to be amongst the men, topless, throwing things onstage. Pitchfork: Whe

Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again.

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.