Music Quotes

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

Even though there is randomness and improvisation in my music, I want to have some concrete idea that I can hold onto.

We've been conditioned to understand music as a field where you get discovered, and you're always trying to find that end. So 'my shot' is speaking of a variety of shots. When you're a rapper, you look at every shot as the one you're supposed to take.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

I'm constantly listening to music and thinking about it and compiling my own cassettes and CDs in obsessively specific order. I have quite lunatic agendas for what I want to achieve. They won't make sense to anyone other than me, but it is what I've spent most of my life doing.

When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

Pop music might seem banal and simple to some people, but it's what it expresses that counts.