Quotes About Music

I did feel a bit of an outsider in the Eighties. But there was a market for me out there. New Romantics were totally different.

Being an outspoken Christian in the music industry means always feeling out of place. It's like whatever you have accomplished is less credible because of your faith.

You've really got to appreciate an artist that's really outspoken and feels like his music can change the world.

We were quickly labeled as an outspoken feminist band, which I'm totally fine with.

We never claimed to be a Christian band; we just were outspoken about our faith. It's not like we knew there was a scene.

The 80s was an outstanding era.

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and melody that I already have set. Everything is left to chance.

When I was growing up, I saw the Aaliyah shirts, the DMX shirts, or the collab shirts with DMX and Aaliyah when they had a single together. Those were the dope collage shirts with their faces all over it. They were doing cool things like that.

When you have live music in the background, people are usually talking over it. You don't actually get to listen to live music in your space all the time.

I think I'm much more of a guitar-songwriter than a singer. I start with chords and then test out melodies rather than improvising over it.

Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it is to bundle up all of my emotions about it, put it in a little shell, create something, and then let it go.

I'll go in the studio and hear a track that I don't like, and they're trying to pay me to rap over it. But I'll tell them I just can't do it. And when they ask why, I say, 'Because then somebody's gonna hear it... damn, find another track.'

When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.

Overall, working with 50 Cent was one of my favourite moments. I grew up, like most of us did, listening to his music and loving him as an artist, so to be able to work with him as an actor was definitely something that was so exciting.

Every time you learn a new language, your understanding of language overall grows, so every time I would learn new music, my understanding of music would grow because I was taken to an extreme in a different direction, and that was, in effect, carrying over into what I do.

You know, my era of DJing was the 90s. I think that was one of the best eras of music, period. From dancehall to hip hop to rock to pop to R&B to everything. I just like that era of music, so I just listen to a lot of 90s overall but definitely 90s hip hop.

I think the key to the success of a music video lies in its concept and the overall look.

You probably can overcome what you're going through from listening to my music.

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

It's kind of crazy how music helped me overcome the anxieties that I have.

I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests.

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.