Quotes About Identity

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

Music is what I love, take that away from me and I really got nothing.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

I've grown up a lot, I've experienced a lot, I'm in love, I'm super happy with who I am and comfortable in my own skin and that's definitely gonna be portrayed in the music and in the lyrics.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

The southerner talks music.

So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, "really hot."

I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us.

Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new business casual.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day- music is still there. It's an extremely important part of what I am.

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

Myspace was always a bit edgy. People identified it with edginess and music.

music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.

I probably have the crappiest tattoo -- not only in country music -- but maybe the world.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.