Quotes About Music

I'm trying to be the Dr. Dre of Cleveland.

I love clever lyrics.

I love lyrics that are not too clever.

I like to just make flex music. So when I do make emotional music, it's hard for me, because I feel like I'm cliche. But I guess cliche is the best thing sometimes, because it's real.

Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

It's a cliche that music rises above it all, and it's a cliche for a reason - it's very often true.

If you click on MTV, it's the same 10 bands and the same 10 songs, and it gets so old. Kids are looking for something besides what they get on the radio.

Me and Carti are both from the Southside of Atlanta. That's one of the main reasons that we clicked so well.

'Manu' is one of the best albums. The climax song will be a trump card for all break-up songs. Everybody will talk about the language of the lyrics.

An album is not like an hour-long DJ set, you know, hit after hit and then build up to one big climax.

My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music.

I want to make music for everyone. I'm not trying to start a super exclusive group. I don't want a clique of people where you have to wear a certain type of clothes to come to our shows, or you have to be the ages of this and this.

I'm a big believer in the benefit of a home studio. You're sitting there and maybe you don't know the next line. So you go outside for a second, maybe. Make a sandwich. Play with the dog. Or watch an episode of 'The Office,' whatever. And then it clicks, you run back into the room, and you've got it. It's not like your creativity is on the clock.

I grew up with a clock radio next to my bed.

I constantly tour every year, around the clock. That's how I make my living, and I do very well. Because I have classic songs.

I usually only play with very close friends.

I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see people.

See what I do is I book a studio that's closed down and I go by myself. No one's in there, literally just me and the engineer.

Those are two artists that I worked with real closely. Me and Miley are real close, me and Future are real close.

I tell people to listen really closely to the song when they're working out their guitar parts.

We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it's because people don't have the chance to be closer to it.

I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it is.

All my life, my heart has felt closer to rock n' roll.

I ended up having to leave home to make the music I wanted to make, and to find myself. As cliche as that sounds; I like to think I'm getting closer.