“I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.”
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“I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.”
“I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.”
“I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.”
“Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.”
“These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.”
“Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.”
“I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.”
“What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.”
“I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!”
“Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.”
“It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.”
“I've sung other people's music all my life.”
“I'm very inspired by past music.”
“I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.”
“I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.”
“I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.”
“In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.”
“People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.”
“I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.”
“Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.”
“Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.”
“High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.”
“I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.”