Quotes About Identity

You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.

The sperm donor that impregnated my mother (with me), passed away. Please, stop sending me private messages of condolences. I never met the man.

Sometimes, we only truly find ourselves when we have lost ourselves first.

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

I'm the most comfortable when I'm at home resting doing nothing.I feel the most myself when I'm with music.

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

You cannot sing African music in proper English

For me particularly, when I listen to or make the music of the team called SHINee, I think that ultimately SHINee is me and I am SHINee.

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.

I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

This is Manchester, we do things differently here.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves