Quotes About Artistry

I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't like it, there's always Michael Jackson for them to listen to.

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal.

It takes a lot of money to make music and get it to people. It takes a lot of time to make a record sound good.

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

I've always been into dressing and being stylish because I feel like that's where I gained a lot of my confidence and swag as a rapper, so fashion goes hand-in-hand with music to me.

Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

There are only two types of music.good and bad.

That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

I just do what I do. I like to make music

Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.

I appreciate all the people that can respect and appreciate my music.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.

I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

Music is what I love to do, so you'll never have to worry about me not doing that.