Quotes About Music

My music is not Christian - Lecrae is. And you hear evidence of my faith in my music.

I guess with any type of music or any art, there's always an evolution.

Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.

I want my music to evolve to become more me.

After playing for 40 years, I've been able to evolve the way I see the fretboard and how I hear the guitar in my head.

The way I evolved was playing straight-ahead jazz into playing more fusion-type stuff just because I was young enough to get into it. As I get older, I find myself coming back to where I kind of started.

I'm trying to do the exact thing Verdi or Mendelssohn did - open up that spiritual space where we can all be fully ourselves.

I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.

But sometimes that title 'jazz' can vex people who think they know exactly what jazz always is and will be.

If you listen to my music, you know who I'm talking to, what I'm talking about, and exactly what my message is.

I'm giving fans exactly what they need to hear.

I wish to excite people with music and dance.

We're always just trying to keep ourselves interested enough to make music that will excite other people in the same way that we feel excited doing it.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

When I first started, everything happened at once. I became religious, my musical career took off, I got married, I had kids, and all that happened within the course of a year. I had an excitement about this newly found faith, and so I was writing about that in a very evident kind of way.

We didn't want to be famous. We just loved the music and excitement.

If a hit song comes on in a theater, the mass audience get so excited they throw money, just out of excitement.

At the moment when I come on stage and I hear the excitement, I can feel the excitement of the crowd. That's the most important thing to me.

We write when the time comes, and we try to be exciting, and stuff that excites us usually makes the record.

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Sometimes I'm so exhausted and I don't really want to play.

I'm always exhausted after a show, even if it's just half an hour.

I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.

Live performances are exhilarating, especially when performing for a young crowd.