Quotes About Music

We need more pop songs and more empowering songs.

I've written a lot of songs from watching women speak about women empowerment.

One of the great aspects of a Destiny's Child movie... is the empowerment of the songs and the empowerment that Destiny's Child has given to women.

When I wrote 'Dopamine,' I was so enamored by Los Angeles and finally making music I was really excited about.

I don't like doing 25 songs. I think that just kills the audience. I think the show should be 17, 18, 19 songs and encores.

I can't stand it when groups come back for an encore, and they play some slow thing. Oh, brother! It's like, 'Had I known that, I would've left.'

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

I really hope my music and my life can help encourage people not to give up.

I get on stage and realize what God has given me, and not just I sing some songs and tell a couple stories, or something that God's done. It's more like, 'OK, guys. I want to encourage you to go out to this world and show love and truth.'

I grew up with parents who really encouraged me to listen to as much music as I could.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me.

People aren't just listening to my single, but they are listening to the whole album - and that's really encouraging to me because you just never know what's going to happen when you put something out.

My parents have both done some music stuff. My family was very artist-friendly, so that was encouraging.

It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.

I feel like, at the end of the day, I always would try to make music that I wanted to listen to: stuff that I liked and wanted to hear.

I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.

My first engagement with any art was music.

I can't usually sleep if I'm listening to music. It seems to fire up my mind, and I keep engaging with it to see what it's doing.

I love performing live and engaging with my fans on-ground.

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.

I record everything myself, I engineer everything myself.

I've been blessed to work with so many wonderful musicians and engineers and friends over the years.