Quotes About Music

I hate when any rapper would just use "Rapper X" because "Rapper X" is hot at the time and put them on the record. That's not how I do my thing. I work with my friends and people I consider fam.

For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.

I feel really connected to these young ladies I get to work with; I'm dancing around with them and playing music for them. We sit down and get to know each other so we have a shorthand.

In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.

My beats are pretty s - - y, though. I don't know how they work.

If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.

I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work. I like peace and quiet now when I go home.

One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

I like to go into the studio and start work on a project when it's time. I don't like to do it too early or too late.

The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.

To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.

When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.

Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.

I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

May was so great to work with, he even took me over to Japan for some dates. It blew me away when he let me play his guitar on stage with him.

Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

Recognize a rock 'n' roller for what he is, which is a damned lucky guy not to have to work for a living.

A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity.

Something that distinguishes my solo work from normal rap production is that it has a lot of melody - it's not just cutting up a song and having someone rap over it.

I can't wait to wake up in the morning and listen to music in order to try to find something to work with.

It's hard enough to get things to work in a musical way.