“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”
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“Music is a safe kind of high.”
“If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.”
“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.”
“This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.”
“Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.”
“I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.”
“Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.”
“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.”
“I try to use my music to move these people to act.”
“The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.”
“Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.”
“Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.”
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”
“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.”
“Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.”
“I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.”
“Folk music is a bunch of fat people.”
“You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.”
“Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.”
“Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”
“If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.”
“The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.”