Quotes About Music

I'm not from the South, but I love country music. And country music is really big in the Midwest. Connie Smith came from Ohio. Jessi Colter was from Arizona.

I've been rapping on some crunk beats and getting down on the South music for years. I feel like I can do it all.

I love 'South Pacific.' It's got beautiful music. But there have been so many, you know, renditions of this in high school or college productions.

Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black partner, so I grew up very aware of the struggle going on. Coming from that background, it really gave me chills to have my music be a part of the election of the first black American president.

When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.

We've performed in South America and in Japan.

When they're singing the guitar lines of songs in South America? Never heard that before. And in Canada, when they're singing all of the lyrics to every song - that blows me away. I don't know all the lyrics to every song.

We'll go to South America and play to 60,000. It's insane.

We get to travel to Siberia, Japan, China, Australia, South America and even the little cities all around America. It's probably my favorite thing about being in a band.

When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.

I think South Korea was one of the best shows I've ever done in my whole life. The people there were crazy. It was literally Beatlemania.

We are fans of Mozart and Beethoven, as well 'South Park' and Borat. We believe that we can attract many people who eschew the serious ambiance of concert halls and don't go to classical music concerts because of such reasons. However, there is a 'serious humor' on the stage: funny and ridiculous. That is important!

The boys know they're from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.

Early on I did all the production for UGK, like on 'Southern Way.' Yeah, 90 percent of the production and not for any other reason then I couldn't find anybody that would give me what I needed, so I had to make it myself.

Rock was born in the South, so saying 'Southern rock' is like saying 'rock rock.'

I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.

The South just keeps right on playing good time Southern music.

Country music's so about the nuclear family and living the southern lifestyle and everything.

And I always say, when Southern people get on the dance floor, they ain't getting off.

I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Southern rock, classic rock.