Quotes About Perspective

I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it is just a feeling that feels good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.

I don't ever want anyone to hear my music and look at it as just gratuitous violence, or hustling and money-getting - I try to tell the perspective of the woman, the man, the mind, why.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

There's only two kinds of music I don't like....Country and Western.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me.

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

The more composed scenes are like elevator music compared to some of the more dynamic styles of music. One is not better than the other. They both deserve their spots in the world.

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way

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 want people to have their own visions for the dance. Some generations will sit back and relate to the music. And the young people ...they'll have the dance right in front of them.

So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?

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

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

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.

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.

It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea.

I grew up listening to English music.

I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I even played with him. I think he's jiving baby.

you dont know what you got till its gone