Quotes About Artistry

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

I started out singing covers. I've sung a lot of 'em and love a lot of 'em.

I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much fervor. They sound good sung by me, and they especially sound good with my band.

Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is sung, even when in character.

I always wrote everything - I wrote all the lyrics, I wrote all the melodies, everything; it's just somebody else sung it. And to me, the singer is nothing else than a different... like a bass player or a keyboard player - they're not more important than any other musician.

I can sing the blues and I have sung the blues. I feel it internally when I'm singing.

I have sung, but I haven't sung in any way that I would ever call myself 'a singer.'

Every time I went into the studio, I always sung with my heart. If it came out as strong, as good, as powerful as that to my fans, then I was satisfied. I never slacked. I always did all the songs the same way as the first.

A unique style comes from not being able to do things in a conventional manner. If David Byrne could have sung like Paul McCartney, he would have.

I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else.

It's very hard for me to write a generic song that could be sung by anybody.

No-one has ever sung quite so beautifully as Karen Carpenter.

I don't much care for the sunlight or bright colours of any kind.

Drag queens don't work well outside. We're designed for spotlights, not sunlight.

Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.

Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a balance that you could see in anything. Whether it's a great painting or a building or a sunset.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

I'm not the kind of writer that goes, 'I'm gonna write a song about sunshine,' or, 'I've just heard a phrase, so I'm gonna write that,' and then I write a song. I'll wait for inspiration to hit, and you can't depend on it.

I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films.

With the super duper flow, I created that one word rhyme style.

When I started producing, I was just making music under all different names. 'Black Afro.' 'Super Grandmaster.' 'Mister Bull.' Like, the most stupid, idiotic names. 'Afrojack' was one of those idiotic names.

Uzi is insanely good and super creative.

People always say when they meet me that I'm not what they expect. I assume they think I'm this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.