Busta Rhymes Quotes

I don't think country music needs saving from anything.

Country music has to evolve in order to survive.

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

R&B is never going to be dead, it's just going to evolve.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn't fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

I'd really started hating music. I'd started hating all the songs, hating being in the industry, hating doing the shows. So I had to learn to love music again if I wanted to continue doing this.

Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.

The music that I've had out so far was obviously very pop, but when I signed with Hollywood Records, I was like, 'I know that's the music you're familiar with, but that's not what I want to sing. I want to do country.' They were on board with it!

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

Pop music has progressed.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?