St. Lucia Quotes

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

You know, I never did music for money. I did music to hear myself in the club, and to hear my creation on the radio.

The work I've done through my Common Culture Music series has enabled me not only to share my joy of music at scale but also promote the artists I love.

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

That's what I've tried to do: I've tried to make music that I really love.

I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.

I want to let everyone hear my music and enjoy it, but just as long as it's fun. I'll go as far as until it gets too much like a day job.

I love making music, though. I love playing.

I'm only worried about what I'm doing or how I present music. I just try to do things I want to listen to, and I think that's what everybody else is try doing, too.

There is nothing more useless than an album that you don't feel strongly about, out in the world.

I'm a fan of making music more than talking about it.

I never wanted to stop making music.

You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician.

I just want to make music that people hear, and I'm not ashamed of that.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

I just wanted to write about music if I wasn't going to make it.

I would say, you can never do enough gigs and you can never do enough songs. Make sure that every opportunity you can, play a show and every opportunity you can, write a song.

This industry's so full of distractions: partying, drinking, sex, money. The priority for me is just to make music that people can connect with. I want to make something fresh that people may not understand

I'm doing music that I like and that I hope other people will like too.

I think I feel in love with words before I feel in love with music.

We was different, and that's what made g-funk turn into what it turned into and create a new genre, and open up a lot of doors for other artists to feel free to do that type of stuff.

I was the audience he wanted to reach. Gram Parsons' writing brought his own personal generations poetry and vision into the very traditional format of country music, and he came up with something completely different

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.