Quotes About Music

Oh, the dilemma of the summer music festival. On one hand, we ladies try very hard to look cute walking around those muddy fields in our cowboy boots and cut-offs. On the other hand, we want to look like we really didn't try at all and just rolled out of bed looking this way.

People said my records were 'funky' and 'muddy,' but the truth is they were just demos.

I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it.

I've always been attracted to multicultural music. It's where the world is going.

I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.

I'm always working on multiple songs at a time.

Future was always the person to knock out multiple bangers in one night.

In most multiple composer situations, you find it because someone got nervous about the music and insisted that somebody else come in and help.

I got really, really sick with a horrible disease called transverse myelitis; I lost my legs. I couldn't play anymore. It was a form of multiple sclerosis, which I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

Being in a band with my wife, I'm very aware of the multitude of ways that can go wrong. We're best friends and are interested in the same things, so it's natural to make music together.

My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.

My mum listened to stuff like Alanis Morissette and Tori Amos, but she also listened to a lot of '80s stuff like Heart. I still quite like Heart.

I think the first album I bought was The Jackson Five, but the first CD I was given was 'Cotton-Eyed Joe,' the single! Bless my mum - don't know what she was thinkin'!

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

My mum loved Joan Armatrading and used to play her records all the time and even took me to see her a couple of times when I was really quite young. I didn't really like her music back then because my mum was always playing it, but I've grown to appreciate it more.

For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house.

I did Jools Holland, which was bonkers because it's an institution, and as a family, we've all been into it our whole lives, and then I did Hootenanny. I took my mum and dad along, and they were sat there next to Gregory Porter and Chaka Khan. My dad was just laughing, like he couldn't believe it was real.

My mum and dad are massive Bowie fans, so I grew up listening to his music.

My mum and dad used to listen to a lot of R&B and soul, so this was the way I grew up. Hip-hop, of course. But then as I grew older, I started listening to everything.

But it's funny, I really was quite introverted as a child. I just liked music, so mum and dad bought me a piano when I was seven - I actually got up to Grade Seven at the London College of Music on piano.

Later when I was in Mithibai College, Mumbai, I was a singer for a rock band.

Mumbai city has given me a lot of love.

I got married and had a baby, so I was doing the mummy thing. I got hyperemesis and was only supposed to go away for maternity leave, but then it ended up being three or four years, and by that time, it was hard to get back into the music world, so when Drake called, it was the perfect opportunity.

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.