Lupe Fiasco Quotes

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

I can't even read music. All I know is whether I think it sounds good and if I like what I'm doing.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Great music was written by the great geniuses, and you want to do it justice.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.

I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.

The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

The thing with music education is that it is good at teaching technique, but not texture. You only learn about that from listening to music and experimenting on your own.

I love Mozart, but I often make a terrible hash of it.

I don't think you can have a calculated approach towards learning music.

I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm the head of the orchestra, and I'm just waving my wand, and something is created.

I've always liked music since I was younger.

Everyone hears a song a different way and hears timing a different way.

I know what my taste is, and I do like my touch on the piano.

I grew up loving symphonies. Beethoven is beautiful.