Quotes About Music

I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

Look, I like my music, and I don't have a conventional background for a politician, but I'm pretty conventional in many senses.

I want to write songs, and I would like to play and sing them. I'm not a politician; I'm not a comedian. I hate coming up with bits to do between songs.

My father was a politician and I had no contacts in the music industry, but I could still do some good work because I was passionate enough and dedicated towards music.

Rock helps me communicate directly with the people because rock doesn't lie, and people are fed up with lying politicians.

Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of polls during the years that I was at Columbia. The Downbeat Jazz Poll. Leonard Feather, who was a huge critic back in the day, different polls that he had. The Playboy poll, a number of polls. So the music was great.

There is a lot of musical pollution in the film industry.

I go by the name of Polo G and I'm from the near North Side of Chicago, the 1300 block of Hudson Avenue.

With 'Pink Polo,' I wanted something I could listen to when I was doing different activities during the summer and also bring a message in it.

The Seattle explosion was what saved rock from becoming too pompous! A great moment in music!

Opera can be exceptionally moving but can also be pompous.

Music has always taken me to my 'thinking place' - the one place that makes me dwell on the meaning of things and ponder why things are the way they are.

If I don't feel it when I'm sitting there, if it doesn't give me the feeling I got when I heard 'Pony' or 'So Anxious' or 'In Those Jeans,' I scrap it.

Back in the day, when 'Pony' came out, I don't believe there was anyone that could dance like me.

Pony' was one of the biggest songs of my career. It was really hard to follow that up.

If anybody in the business can capture the spirit of 'Pony,' it would have to be Rihanna.

The best parties have always been at my house in Ibiza. They start with a bit of music and a barbecue by the pool.

The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.

I would DJ pool parties in Minneapolis, but I never swam there!

If something doesn't work, you have to admit it. Always try to find what's going right and what's going wrong with your music. If you can, pool your resources and record yourself; do that frequently.

I feel like it's my responsibility not to leave the listener in a pool of dread.

I like a good pool party.

My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.

No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.