Quotes About Music

VH1 is seriously competing for best channel ever.

I am not competing to be an athlete. I make music.

I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.

I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.

I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.

I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa.

I am a deeply competitive person when it comes to music.

For a long time, I couldn't tell somebody how I felt or I couldn't talk about my problems because I felt like I was complaining. Writing would help me or it would be like, I can't tell you how I feel, but I can play you a song.

I like it when two sounds complement each other but are way different on a record.

I create the music, and if this artist could complement this record, I reach out.

There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

I would love to do a complete EDM album.

Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete.

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.

As a kid, I didn't know much about Prince - who he was and all the complexities of his personality - but I could still feel very close to him when I listened to his music.

Anything to do with the Beatles is very complicated.

I just make my music. It's not too complicated.

It's definitely complicated, but it's all about the music. When people focus on other things, I think that's when it gets lost, and I would just rather focus on the music of it all.

So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

I love having my voice on my songs now, but it also means a lot to hear that another artist likes your song enough to cut it and put it on their album. It's a special kind of compliment.

My private joke about 'Luke Cage' is that it's a bulletproof version of 'Lemonade,' and that, essentially, it's a concept album that has a video component.

It is quite amazing how K-pop has developed over the years. This genre has so many musical components that it has no limitations.