Quotes About Music

People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much.

I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.

Every time I get up and sing for people, I get such a high. I just want to do it again and again.

People want to build musicians into mythical beings.

Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I could just be PJ.

Before I record for real, I know pretty much exactly how I want them to feel.

All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.

But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

When I heard the Beatles, I thought thats it. That's what I want to be. I want to be a Beatle.

When you hear romantic music It makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out In the moonlight or take her on a walk.

Sometimes I see where I want to take the song and wind up at the end and come back to the beginning. I don't miss nothing and everything is good. Everything I thought of is incorporated in it.

I just think, who wants new soul? I want my soul to be the same as Otis Redding, I don't wanna have a new one.

When I was young what made me really want to be a rapper was when I saw MC Lyte.

I have a deep respect for musicians, and I feel like I would want to be so prepared and so well-educated and deep in the process before I ever release anything.

I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.

You have to be willing to look a certain way, and hold your body a certain way, until you get to where you want to go - I'm talking about musically, now.

You just have to follow your own heart. I listen to so many different kinds of music and at the end of the day you want to make a record that you're super proud of.

I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.

I think I am like everyone else in the music business these days - you have to adjust to the times and deliver whatever people want, and are using to consume the music.

After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.

If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

I don't believe in singles. The singles market has changed. I am trying to get back to the old days of releasing albums at will, like Star Wars coming out again.

Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.