Quotes About Music

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

I live primarily on chocolate chip cookies and coffee, and I'm prone to singing Katy Perry songs at the top of my lungs in the car. I'm an unapologetic fan.

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

I play guitar, and it's not a prop.

I'm not a propaganda machine. I tell things how I see them. When I say, for example, that corruption is not the only thing the West should think about when they think about Nigeria, I'm not saying it doesn't exist but that people have the complete wrong focus. There's music, there's art, there's culture.

There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.

If I'm not working on music, I'm usually with my friends playing FIFA. We just kick back - I'm proper chilled.

I was like, 'I can't do grime. That's for kids.' - I was 20 at the time, and I thought I was a gangsta, a proper rude boy.

Some days, I want to be prim and proper, and others, I want to be in a band.

Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.

I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.

I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally.

My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It's a proper dance with proper music. It has class.

Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.

I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto.

To finally be able to actually play the piano with vocalists and actually do, like, a proper concert - that feels really good.

When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of 'Wish You Were Here,' but we didn't really want it on the record.

It feels amazing to be on the MTV Brand New list. I was shocked when I got told - a good shocked. I'm proper happy about it.

I could never write a proper party song.

My sister and I wrote some songs together under a project called Sala Says Mhyp when I was 17. Sala is our cat. She died, and we wanted to do something in honor of our her. We were a proper cat family.

My first proper 'Here's your guitar, Joseph' was a 1981 Chiquita, one of those Erlewine travel guitars. And it was good for a four-year-old because it was small.

Most of my friends in London are musicians, but the ones in Scotland have proper jobs.

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.