Quotes About Music

Singing in the jungle was very hot and very sticky, which was a bit hard going. I had a little piano, which they trudged around on the back of a lorry, hoping it would survive the journeys.

I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.

Lil Uzi and I gave Philly different sounds by stepping outside of the box and not sticking to the stigma.

Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues.

People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.

The great thing about 'Hamilton,' for me, is so many people have been exposed to and are more open to hip-hop and certain artists, despite the stigma that had before been attached to it.

I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't.

I still DJ the same way, but I'm not a scratch-scratch-scratch battle DJ. No, I'll rock the house. I'm old school.

If a song was ever good, it's still good.

I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!

I love flamenco. It's very difficult music to sing. But I think of any genre as a snow globe - you don't admire it for its stillness. You have to shake it up and see how it explodes.

I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs to build an act that would constantly stimulate my audience.

I go to see some big shows of other bands, and I feel like I'm so bombarded and over-stimulated that I lose interest in the music. There has to be light and shade, and less stimulating moments. There has to be an arc to the show.

I loved everything that went with rock n' roll. I loved being at the heart of such creativity and being young in such a stimulating and exciting era.

Music and space collide for me, as I find them incredibly stimulating.

I wanted a physical kick in the music. I wanted it to be stimulating.

I basically am always chasing this super enhanced stimulation from music.

Writing music while caffeinated produces some interesting results. The stimulation basically amplifies my music-production-dependent bi-polarity.

Shout out to Sting: that's the G.O.A.T. right there. The goat. Greatest of all time.

I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.

I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.

In those projects with Sting and Josh Groban and people like that, I see a very interesting effect: their fans coming to my classical concerts, people who've never been to a classical show at all.

I think my parents took me to see Sting when I was very, very young.

I like to listen to the Police, Sting, Queen, Pet Shop Boys.