Vic Mensa Quotes

Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

If you make something from your heart, of course you want it to connect with the people.

A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something's authentic, and you can feel when it's not: you know when someone's trying to make the club record, or trying to make the girl record, or trying to make the thug record. It's none of that. It's just my emotions.

That's all I ever wanted to do: put out music from the heart that people could relate to.

Songs, for me, are notes from the heart.

I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.

Kenny Loggins pours his heart and soul into the music he makes. He'll take you with him through everything he's going through, which is not easy.

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.

All music is important if it comes from the heart.

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

If I'm not invested emotionally, the artwork doesn't feel emotional.

I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.

Music that comes from the heart - that's the music that moves me.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

It's not that I imitate him. I use a lot of what I feel. Even now, they refuse for me to stop doing James Brown. If it's something I can feel from the heart and from the soul, I do it.

Anything that gets to the more emotional and dark side of music, I always enjoy.

Music is about connecting with people on a personal level and doing that one set of ears at a time.

I tried for a long time to make DJ-able dance tracks that were more specific to the stuff that I was playing. Ultimately, I found I wasn't really capable of doing that. The only type of music I was able to make that really made me feel something would just come straight from my heart or straight from whatever emotions I was feeling at that time.

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.