Quotes About Identity

I'm proud to be one. I feel a lot stronger, a lot sexier and I think that all of that is reflected in my music.

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

I love reinventing my music and myself as well, and that's something my fans love about me.

I just want to create amazing music that speaks and defines who I am. I want it to be based on my life and/or what I am going through at that specific time.

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of that community.

Personally I have my own political views and being straight-edge I'm happy to talk about that, but the music that always meant the most to me, was more emotional.

Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing.

I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all

I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music

I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

My thing is when people say Dom Kennedy's music reminds them of L.A., I wanna do that 100 percent because at the end of the day that's all I am.

Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.

For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am.