Quotes About Music

A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.

I have moments all the time when I play.

We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a lot longer to build momentum.

The first hit record is easy compared to the second one. You've got to have two for momentum. If you have three, you're pretty much made. But one isn't enough.

Drake loves moms.

I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.

I don't think most rock stars are particularly calculating. I don't think they sit there and think, 'I will do this; therefore, on Monday, I will sell another 200,000 records'.

When I play in Hong Kong I go alternative, from Wu Tang Clan to 'Blue Monday,' and then for the last 45 minutes, if they deserve it, I play beautiful drum 'n' bass.

The more I travel around the world, the more I see people want the same thing - to be happy. We wouldn't be in a monetary system if we didn't have to work, so if my music can contribute to happiness, then that's my main responsibility.

Maybe other musicians are interested in different things, maybe they have greater monetary concerns. I hear people who have not changed, who haven't elevated anything, who are the same as they were back in the '50s and '60s.

Writing 'Monitor Mix' was a very edifying and inspiring few years.

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. The first time I listened to jazz, he gave me a Thelonious Monk record. It was so different from anything I had ever heard. It took me a while to understand it, and I liked that. I liked the fact that it wasn't immediately palatable.

Jazz is very much a part of my life. I work with the Thelonious Monk Institute and do the artwork for their program every year.

Miles Davis and Felonious Monk, they're both great artists who enhance things.

There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

Rock & roll fan that I am, Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite musical artist.

I love Meredith Monk, and with Instagram, I get a chance to see if she has a cat, and what's she reading.

My dad was into jazz, so there was a lot of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington playing in the house, but also a lot of soul, such as Aretha Franklin and Ella Fitzgerald, while my mum liked Prince and Diana Ross.

The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?

We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.

I loved TV, and I watched anything with music - 'Hee Haw,' 'Happy Days,' anything like that. So I loved the Monkees.

I was on 'In Search of the Partridge Family,' MTV'S 'Miss Seventeen,' and the comedy 'Love Monkey.'

Dance Monkey' is about the bad side of busking.

I've never heard anything like 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.' The Arctic Monkeys are my favorite band, and that is my favorite album.