Michael Clarke Duncan Quotes

I think the best music is honest music.

I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music.

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

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

It's not my concern to make a commercial pop record. I want to make a record of music that I would listen to, that is lyrically rich and has songs that people can relate to - more along the Jakob Dylan route: people who create for the art of it and not necessarily the monetary rewards of it.

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

I love pop music, but I feel like the genre is overpopulated - there was so much bubblegum for a while, but I feel like Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran are bringing good, real music back to the radio.

With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.

I wanted to try a different way of making music. That's what made me try different things with my voice.

There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained through some kind of white toast or something. It all sounds just too neat and perfect, with no surprise to it at all. No story, no nothing. It's like building cars, like an assembly line. It doesn't sound like anything that came from a guitar.

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

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

I called record Prism because I actually finally let the light in and then I was able to create all these songs that were inspired by letting the Light in and doing some self-reflection and just kind of working on myself.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver.

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

I think we need to think of lots of ways to communicate. And we tried some at 350. We organised what they called the largest art project in the planet's history. We do a lot with art and music and things.

You look on the Internet, and people are transforming themselves on a daily basis, and it's not a superficial thing, it's not a vain thing, and it's not an "I don't like the way I look" thing. It's people truly being creative. It's a way of making your mark and making a statement, and I love that. Beauty is making a statement in whichever way you choose to do so, and I think that's a beautiful thing.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.