Quotes About Independence

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.

I don't write music for sissy ears.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.

I don't care what people say. My music's my music.

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me.

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.

You can't take the sky from me.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.

You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

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'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.

I'm trying to give people the chance to put out their music without the bullshit pressures of other labels.

The joy of being a broadcaster is, if you're still allowed to choose your own music.

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.