Quotes About Music

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist.

I don't need the factory behind me. I just need help getting my music heard.

Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.

Me and my mom made a deal that if something would happen to help me get my start in music, I could get out of college.

The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

I would go back to the past and watch one of the early Beatles shows, because they were such a massive part of cultural history. As a younger person, you feel you missed out on that.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.

If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history.

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.