Music Quotes
I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself.
One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.
I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.
Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.
The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.
With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation', it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.
I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo.
I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"
I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it," and so I put on headphones. But the headphones didn't stretch all the way to my bed from the record player, so I had to sleep on the floor in order to hear the records. I slept on the floor right next to the record player until I was probably 19 years old.
When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.
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 do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.
If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.
It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars.
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