Quotes About Music

My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.

When Kendrick Lamar blasts Mr. Trump, he is preaching to the choir. When Eminem does it, there's a good chance Trump voters are actually listening.

There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.

People see me as a theoretician, but my music is also seductive, even spiritual.

I went through a divorce during the 'Seeds of Love' album.

I love the Seekers, they're part of me, and always will be.

A DJ draws a connection between two seemingly disparate things and says, 'Look, they are alike. You can dance to them.'

I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

Eccojams are a very simple exercise where I just take music I like, and I loop up a segment, slow it down, and put a bunch of echo on it - just to placate my desire to hear things I like without things I don't.

As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio.

At some point, I'd like to make a record that's more of a self-serving guitar album, because I really love to play. It's not really something I'd expect a whole lot of people to buy, though.

I self-taught myself music at 19-20.

I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song 'Selfish.'

At a certain time in your career you can't share your time with anyone else. You have to be completely selfish - so that you can write your music.

I sell escapism.

I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

I sort of disbanded the DC5 in 1970. I decided to call it a day when we were still selling records.

Selling music doesn't make that much money.

And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself.

I think a lot of my dreams have come true, and my next dream is to have a No. 1 selling album. A Grammy-award-winning album.