Quotes About Music

So when I'm listening to music, I'm listening to a lot of hip-hop to be inspired and to hear new things.

I'm one for new things: I like new technology, I like new music, I'm not entrenched in some view of what culture should be. I like the fact that it's constantly changing and that language is changing, that behaviour changes.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.

Moving to New York City and playing and listening with the wonderful music community that we have here has really been the guiding force of where I've arrived.

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

I decided to sing again after settling in Newark in 1982. I had a burning desire to sing and lots of encouragement from my new wife, Earlene.

We were one of the hottest bands in Jersey, but I was burning up because I knew I'd never be a star in Newark. I knew the action was in Nashville and that's where I wanted to be.

I had a lot of jobs before I got into music. When I was 15, I was a copy boy for the 'Evening Chronicle' in Newcastle. Then I was a journalist. I value those experiences - I got to see how the world works.

Many ask me why I work with debutants, but I always tell them that there's space for every one in the industry, and if my music helps him, then I'm glad to be of some help. I will never say no to deserving newcomers.

Especially as newcomers, it's really important to have the Internet, where people can talk about you and listen to your music.

The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.

The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

Frankly, all the songs from 'Fiza' that made news were mine.

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.

The very best thing for music would be to live next door to a person who listens to loud music so you could mishear music everyday and mutate it to your own means.

I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.

Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

Every time I go into the studio, it's some next level, man.

I've got a song with Roscoe Dash - that's next level, man.

When Chuck Berry came along, what he did was more rock & roll than it was blues. It was more exciting. He was like the next step. I thought his first single, 'Maybellene,' was the greatest song in the world.