Quotes About Music

Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.

We wouldn't be where we are without people loving our music.

We've always believed in our music.

All I can say is we love what we do, and the audience is still there for us. I think what's given us such longevity is that our music may not be fancy, but it touches a nerve with the average Joe.

Our music is being played on MTV and the radio. That's something that still blows us away. And we did it our way.

I've heard people say all our music sounds the same, but it's usually just the people who don't like us who say it.

We never said we were hard-core or that we didn't want our music crossing over or being popular.

Without a drummer, you've got that sort of running, chicken-chasing, rhythmic thing happening with the banjo in the top end - it's what gives our music a lot of its momentum, a lot of its energy.

A lot of people write and tell us what The B-52s meant to them - straight, straight-A students, those who were a little awkward, weren't always the ones who fit in. People have told us that just having us and our music was beyond important and really made me feel that what we were doing was worth something big.

We come from a more alternative rock band background, and it's interesting to see the things that people think we should or shouldn't do since our music is a little bit poppier.

Our story is in two halves, as the band's career up to Freddie's death was 20 years, and 20 years later, our music is as popular as it was then. It's a sort of everlasting... income.

If the Christian community responds to our music better because maybe we gained a little more credibility in the mainstream, then it's not ideal, it's not fun, it's not sexy, but I'll take it.

Our music is harder to play than it sounds. It's the small details you don't realize are there until you try and re-do it.

I think we were damned lucky that our music never went down the drain because we went down the drain, and I think, in truth, there are moments where you could have said we got pretty close, you know.

The music I used to make was a lot more rock, so I come from this background of head banging a lot, and it took me a while to figure out how to do it in the context of our music.

I would love for people to enjoy our music and have feelings from it. That's all I can hope for.

As we grow, our music grows, and it's very natural and organic, and it's nothing that's forced, which is really, really important to us because we don't want to just do something drastic just to do it.

We believe that with our music, we should be saying exactly what we think. We want to speak up for people who don't have a voice. That's what our music does.

I know who buys our music: we have such a diverse fanbase.

Our music contradicts our look.

You will hear ambient in our music. You will hear trip-hop.

We've been fully involved in making our music, and to be personally involved is what we really asked for.

We're just a joyous band, and our music is just fun, happy, and nostalgic.

A lot of young people have been raised on our music, or rather had it forced upon them by their parents.