Quotes About Artistry

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point.

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

I lived for music since I could think.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

Me and Kendrick [Lamar] have different types of music. He from a different coast; we ain't in the same lane.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.

We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

A good player can make any guitar sound good.

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

Once youve changed who you are or who youve portrayed in your music, the fans, theyll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

Music, it's an emotion; if you're just a puppet, how can you put your soul in what you do? For my part, I believe that I put my soul to it, so I get angry when people think that what I do is plastic.

When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.

I'm still trying to do me and just make good music and quality music, music that you can feel.