I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.
When Kubrick called me about 'The Shining,' it was very strange. He first asked me to write music for his film, but I instead gave him suggestions about some of my pieces. I told him about 'The Awakening of Jacob,' which he did use in 'The Shining.'
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.
I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.
I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
I didn't learn music because I wanted to become famous or earn a lot of money. It was to follow my father's advice and learn as much as I could about music.
I know this sounds weird, but I honestly believe music comes from the universe. Inspiration comes from the universe, and you drag it into your mind.
Pop music will never be low brow.
Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.
I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.
Music is only love looking for words.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.
Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
My mom is a very religious woman. So when I began recording music, I was afraid she wouldn't accept it. But when I played her a song, she loved it.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
Any good music must be an innovation.
I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.
I like music, I listened to all rappers; people like Jeezy, Yo Gotti, T.I.
I let my team pick what order the records go. I don't pick my own records. I'm a fan of my music regardless so you have to think outside of the box.
I wasn't really into music. I was into the streets. I was too worried about the streets and how I was going to eat and how I was going to make the streets happen.
I'm always going to be able to touch fans and get new fans because everybody goes through something everyday. I just keep touching different subjects by talking to the streets and reaching out to my fans by telling them a story instead of just giving them music to listen.
My dad's name is Robert Stafford. His music name is R. L. Stafford; he makes gospel music.
My first year making music was very experimental. I was trying to find my sound. My second year, I was more in my element. I knew what type of production I wanted to go over and the topics I wanted to address.
Atlanta is down south, the club. So the most thing played down there is club music. Everybody wants a hit.
Wherever you're from, you adapt to your environment. It definitely made my music a little bit more explicit. Because I really was in North Philly, I listened to State Property and stuff. Everything my dad listened to, I listened to.
I enjoy 'down South' music.
Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.
'Let the music play on' would be my legacy.
I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.
I feel sexy when I'm natural. When I hear good music. When I feel sunlight on my skin.
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
I like music that expresses what I think.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.