Tinie Tempah Quotes

Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.

I have huge respect for the musical aptitude and intellect of listeners in India. They appreciate genuine, quality music.

They've been brought up on the best music. It's gonna be so good.

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 was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. The more I do it, the more I'm humbled. I'm just always trying to get better at it. I pick up a few tricks along the way.

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.

When I hear people clapping at the wrong times, I think that's great. We have got a listener that's not used to going to - we have got a new listener.

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.

I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, ever like something the first time I listen to it.

My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.