Quotes About Music

When I was a bit younger, I loved Rufus Wainwright - just the fact that he existed.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

I think being part of Pentatonix has helped my arrangement style a lot, and that's helped me expand myself.

I never do any song with any expectation.

I never expected to make a lot of money from music.

I think it's hard for Aaliyah to be duplicated, because she had her own lane.

I'm in the lane where I can make music but also have it be funny and still good at the same time.

My first language is Gaelic.

I've done songs in other languages. I know how hard it is.

The most sobering thing is to have a number one record across the whole entire world in all languages.

You can't really sit and start singing into a laptop at an airport. Well, you could, but you'd have a lot of sound in the background.

Eminem was someone that I discovered I liked, largely because of his relationship to language and to his mother.

We experimented with stuff that some might find crazy, but we wanted to widen and make the spectrums of influence much larger, because house and electronic music is about freedom.

I decided to study music my last year in high school.

Whether it's music or fashion, the older I get, I realize what's comfortable lasts longer.

Elvis is great and so is anybody who lasts like he does.

The key to being a great band that lasts is always going to be making sure you write really good songs and put on really good shows.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.

Ten, 15 years before, the Latin industry was singing Anglo music, trying to get an opportunity with them. Everything changed, and now around the world everyone is listening to our Latin music.

I like 'Firework' because it is very different from our past songs and was inspired by the Latin genre.

I don't want to make music only for Latinos. The idea is always to make a global sound.

I love rock. I love the music that was born out of the latter part of the 20th century. It means a lot to me.

Believe me, when I saw 'Family Guy' do the bit on 'Africa,' I howled laughing.