Taio Cruz Quotes

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for.

You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end.

As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!

I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those people that are interested in good rock n' roll music.

If someone says, 'Hey man, I love your album, it really got me through a breakup, but I downloaded it for free,' I'll be like, 'Good! That's good!' Maybe he didn't have the money for the album, but if he still listened to it, and it's an important part of his life, that's all I can ask for. I don't want his twenty bucks.

We really had boundless optimism about the place of music in the culture - and in the world.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.

Michael Jackson believed in making music that made people feel good.

All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.

I think every artist should follow their vision; their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. That said though, I think also artists have, continuously good artists, have been good for their times.

I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we don't even know, and make music and whatever.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses... that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.

An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people's lives through music.