Quotes About Music

I don't think any other place puts out music with no promise of success and still works like Baltimore.

We were approached by Alison Ellwood about the idea of doing a documentary. At first, we were a bit nervous because we didn't want it come across as a salacious 'Behind The Music' kind of thing. Alison did such a great job. It really puts perspective on things.

When an artist becomes pop, it's because the people choose it. Yes, you can have that dream to be a big pop star, but it's the audience that puts you in that position. I never had a paid marketing campaign, it was never like that.

I need to do something with Cordae. His mannerism is so cool but his bars... he got them bars that puts him in an elite thing.

I just make my Boosie music and that puts me in my own lane.

The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've ever done. The music that I'm thinking about putting on our next album.

The process of putting the DVD and the CD together was great fun, because it provided a good excuse for the four of us to make time to get together again. I am especially pleased with the end result of these two projects.

Music for me was always life changing. So if I'm putting out crap music, then I have not done what I came to accomplish.

Longevity has a lot to do with me continuously nonstop putting music on the shelf, and making myself be the face of the Bay, and continuing to carry the Bay on my back for many moons, you know.

There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

You can't have a show that's too ballad heavy. Those are the black and white logistics of putting together a show. You have to have some balance and some order.

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

I was fixated on Prince's 'Black Album' for a long time.

I play every day. I had a bad back, but they fixed it.

I remember being in high school, and you had to draw those lines and define yourself. I don't think when I was in high school I would have been willing to admit that I liked the Shins. I was into TSOL and Black Flag. I probably would have listened to the Shins secretly in my bedroom.

The first time we ever used the Dixie flag for our backdrop was actually when we went over to Europe in 1970. It looked good, so we all liked it. We never meant any racial things by it.

I've found an extraordinary thing happens where I flash an entire finished song. I could be walking along, say over that bridge, and I see and hear the whole thing, words and music.

God gave me a good voice. I have perfect pitch. I don't sing flat.

The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard your record.'

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

GusGus records are flawless.

When 'Flaws' went to No 21, we thought it was the most chart-bothering thing we'd ever do. We had a little party and started thinking about the next album.