Quotes About Music

To me, music is music, and it's not limited by the medium; it just encompasses everything.

Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.

For someone like me, music is all I've ever thought about - playing big shows, and then, when you take something that is based around your music and put it in a completely different medium, it's a really interesting and cool emotion to watch.

The thing I love about music is, if you do it long enough, you get better and better at translating what's in your head to a medium. That's why I keep doing it.

I am so lucky that I have been part of and written songs that will always resonate no matter how old they get.

Certain songs mean a lot to you, and they don't really resonate with anybody else, and the ones you don't necessarily love are the ones that become really meaningful to a lot of other people.

Some songs just resonate with you.

The Marley name resonates all around the world.

In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.

Money is a resource for me and it is needed to make music.

I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.

When I was 15, I became an avid fan of Andres Segovia. He brought so much respectability to the guitar.

I don't think grime has ever been respected; it's not seen as a nice sound.

I feel like a celebrity is someone who sits and takes pictures with people 'cause they love themselves and how they look and how people look at them. But I just want to be regular and respected for my artistry because music doesn't necessarily have a face.

I was a fan of Belle and Sebastian. I didn't really know a lot of their music - I only knew the kind of bigger songs because I had a friend, when I was younger, who was really into them. But I have always really respected Belle and Sebastian for what they are, what they do. Yeah, they're just great.

Grime music is still a young culture in itself. And my goal is to move it on to a more respected place.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.

People respond to any good you can do in music.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

It's always a positive when radio is playing your music and fans are responding.

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

I used to feel that I wouldn't be able to marry, since I am not a responsible person. I love two things - my work and music.