Quotes About Music

I quite like 50 Cent.

My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing.

I feel the most centered in my life when I'm performing a song.

Anyone knows that my music isn't just centered around sex. It's thought-evoking and feeling-evoking.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read.

My fans like a certain quality and a certain level of music. Once I give it to them, they seem pretty happy.

I know a lot of bands that will make their first record and get to a certain level, and then when the second record comes out, they can start where they left off as a headlining act playing in front of a certain number of people, or they can go back out and make a lot less money and open for people.

Before I became the No.1 DJ in the world, people came to see me - they knew my sound. They were straight-up fans. After that, you have to deal with the pressure and knowing at a certain point you're not going to be No.1.

I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.

I'm a real band guy, you know? I'm really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them.

A lot of bands just entertain you. I'm all about entertainment - I do it every day - but there's only certain things in your life that stick around. I think P.O.D. has done that for a lot of people, and I'm happy for that.

I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it.

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

I wanted people to connect to me on that level where I can write about anything, but it would still make someone feel a certain way.

I can get inspired, like anyone, from movies or music or TV or a certain way people think.

The energy from these records, that's what makes crunk so popular; that's why it's winning, because it makes you move a certain way.

But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.

I think it's a shame that 'Woman in Chains' wasn't a hit at the time, although it's become one of people's favorite songs.

I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.

I was a biology major. But I also happened to be captain of the basketball team and first chair in band.

I make 99 percent of my music sitting down, in boxers, when I'm comfortable in my computer chair.