Quotes About Music

When I'm playing with my band, I designate different parts to feel different things. The bass pounds in your chest when you go to a concert. It almost replaces your heartbeat. Then the drums you feel on the floor.

I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

It's imperative that I have another channel to pour ideas into, that have been with me for quite a while, that it would be hard for people to kind of accept on first listen. Some of that would be more classically based stuff and some more jazz based.

Because obviously when we write our music, we pour our heart and soul into it. I put everything into my music... I just feel like, I want people to actually hear what I have to say.

Putting together two powerful sets is always difficult. After you really pour it out one night, it's hard to pour it out the next night.

For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.

I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

When you're making music, you're creeping up on your heart and pouring it out into something.

Music has empowered me through poverty, abuse, and mental-health issues.

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Two gay guys doing a beautiful duet - I think it would just be so powerful, you know.

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.

I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.

Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.

People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

I begin by considering an effect.

I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do.

Considering 'Kaante' is an action film, its music is brilliant.

I give you everything you want as an artist, for so long. Consistency. Wordplay. Wittiness. You can check the checklist. Only thing I don't check off on is album sales.

At least I try to stay consistent with every album I do.

I want to stay consistent and drop an album every year, so in the long run, you can see that I'm an actual artist.