Quotes About Music

But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really.

For me, it's always an organic process. I don't personally reach out to artists without the music being created first.

What's so wonderful about the street is it's organic music. No preservatives. There's no other reason to be out there except you just love music and want to play.

A lot of these songs just came from day-to-day experiences. And it was a very natural, kind of organic process.

At the end of the day, you really want to make sure that organic music, made by human beings, at least has a voice.

For me, there is no point in doing a duet unless it is organic or there is an emotional thru line.

Me and Clams have always kept it organic with the way we work. It's just always the right time. It's never no pressure. He always comes through if I need him. I always come through if he needs me, and we always meet at that right time.

I'm an electronic manipulator. Most people think J.J. Cale, he's organic. There ain't nothing organic about me.

'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.

I came to singing organically.

Seeing them all on Twitter, see it happening at shows, audiences getting bigger. I can't believe I'm doing Brixton. But it's all happened organically, that's why I love it. I've never been a beggar, and I don't think I've begged it at all.

The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.

When I have the opportunity to work, I organize a whole party - like what you perhaps saw at the Grammys.

There's not a lot of thinking in my music. I freestyle a lot of things and organize it later, and then it becomes a song.

The whole '400 Degreez' album was inspired by what Outkast was doing, Organized Noize. That was what I was listening to around that time.

I just look at music as a retreat from organizing. It's like a tug-of-war with me. Music can be effective, but it's not any good if there isn't a grass-roots movement going on to support it.

Either I'm really into the organizing, or I'm really into the music. As I've been going, I've been able to figure out ways to even it out a little more.

I love Puccini and that oriental influence in his music.

I'm grateful to the LGBTQ community for giving me the courage to write music about who I am and not just about my sexual orientation.

I didn't want the record to be cold and I don't think it's cold at all. I felt it was very people oriented.

Even though there are some great keyboard players on the album, there are a number of songs with no keyboard on them and the backing is all guitar oriented. This is first time I've ever done this actually.

Basically we're a blues oriented rock 'n' roll band... easy to listen to.

We do a very family oriented show.

Even though it's called Music Of Black Origin, it's not just music for black people. Music is for everybody. I think it's good that black music is acknowledged, and it's open for lots of artists, including white artists who have been inspired by black musical heritage.