Quotes About Music

People will reach out because they know I'm trying to put my best forward when it comes to subject matter and creation of song.

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies and simple chord changes.

Dream Theater music, there's a lot of background and context to the songs, as far as the subject matter and the albums they come from.

I think Gwen, in her lyrics, always touches on personal subject matter.

I know music is subjective.

Music is very subjective. You may or may not like a song, but folk and regional language have a connectivity that binds different people together, who slowly begin to relate to it.

What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.

What music can do so well is tell the truth in a subjective way.

Music is so subjective and personal, I don't expect people to like everything I do. But that's life and you have to live unapologetically.

You don't know you've got a hit when you write it - because music is all subjective, you know?

In the end, music was the only option open to me. It was a blessing I pursued it. I put all my energies into it. I didn't care about no other subjects.

My music reflects the time on which we live, both in terms of arrangements, as well as in the subjects treated in the lyrics.

I'm saying that people who are enmeshed in situations of subjugation and have to live, have to find ways to project their dignity as human beings - in spite of all the efforts of those around them to degrade them - I'm saying that this music is the manifestation of the dignity in the life that has always been present.

I listen to a lot of Sublime. Dude, I'm obsessed with Sublime. You have no idea.

People always think I just focus on rap, but I listen to every type of music. If I like a song it don't matter what genre of music it is. I might listen to Duran Duran, I might listen to Sublime, maybe Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I've studied several guitar players and songwriters, mostly from Al di Meola to Dimebag Darrell, from Freddie Mercury of Queen to Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Bradley Nowell of Sublime.

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

I am a huge Sublime fan, and I think their music immediately puts you in SoCal when you listen to it.

Sublime is one of my favorite bands; I've been listening to them my whole life.

In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.

When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.

I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.