Quotes About Music

I grew up listening to the Light Crust Doughboys on WBAP.

I like to think that my music allows people that cathartic cry.

The thing is that I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

I overthink everything. I'm just like, 'Wait, why do they want to hear me?' I start doubting myself. Other times, I'll just get so emotional during a song. Sometimes I'll cry while I'm singing. It's so weird. I'm such a baby.

The Kesha Lyrics to hit song 'Tik Tok' are a cry for help.

If you think about it, when you listen to music, music makes you cry. It makes you happy. It makes you dance. It makes you mad. Those are the same emotions that I experience when I feel the energy of a spirit when I'm contacting the spirit and communicating with it.

Most Billy Joel songs make me want to cry a little.

If I'm not crying while writing a song, I'm not doing it right.

When I first heard my song on the radio, I started crying. My baby was out there, and it all became very real.

I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.

I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.

The world will always love Cuban music, however it changes.

Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.

I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.

With Saint Heron, I really wanted to celebrate and continue to cultivate the community for genre-defying R&B artists.

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.

I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.

I just play Cure music, whatever that is.

I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.

I listen to everything from The Cure and The Clash to Prince and George Clinton.

I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about them. Their musicality and their live performances I think would be great, and I have a feeling that there are stories behind each one of them.

Really, I was brought up with music as a second language. My mother was extremely encouraging of the sensitivities of my brain. It was this sense of curiosity but never pressure.

Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.