Quotes About Music

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.

I'd like to do music in the same way - in a witty way. People think of YG artists as rarely appearing on TV but I'd like to make Big Bang fans happy through various mediums.

When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them.

I always have my own music on my iPod, especially songs that I am going to record. Besides that, I have lots of others ranging from Chris Brown to Beyonce', Michael Jackson, Rascal Flatts and Adele.

I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

I don't really understand why when I'm not making music, I feel like I can't breathe.

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

I play American and World music, Texas style.

I have such a deep love for traditional country music.

Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

I like the type of music that can make my heart beat and the melody that makes me high but this type of music isn't popular in Korea.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

I first started writing music when I was 15 and at 16, I was playing in different cities in Australia. When I was 18, I was voted number one DJ in Australia.

The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.

Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

... there are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that

I can teach you to dance, but you have to hear the music.