Music Quotes

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Tell me a musician who's got rich off digital sales. Apple's doing pretty good though, right?

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.

When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.

My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.

I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it.

I learned from Jimi Hendrix. They all wanted him to do the tricks, and at the end of his career, he just wanted to play. I lived longer than he did, and I can see how those pressures can really play with your head.

Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think.

I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.

Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday?

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

I ain't got no money - But I'm rich on personality.

Love isn't love until it's past.

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery.

Black people still call me Prince. Sometimes I ask them, "Why do you call me Prince?" And people say, "Because you are a prince to us." Usually when they say that, you know my heart goes out and I have to say, "I don't mind your calling me that."

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

Even the soldiers need a break sometimes.

At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

How wonderful life is while you're in the world.