Mika Quotes

People keep putting limitations on themselves and creating this reality that soul music is dead. That's only in their reality. It's not true. To me, Adele is R&B. Bruno Mars is R&B. It's just good songwriting and songs. That is going to last.

We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

My sisters and I like a lot of different styles of music, but we're inspired by real artists like Beyonce and Adele.

I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.

A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.

I was a B.I.G. fan. I like all of his stuff. I don't really have a favorite song. They all are good, and each brings different memories to me. And you can still listen to it to this day and it means something.

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

A good song is a good song whatever your age.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.

I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very elitist with music. Love is universal; a great melody is universal; it goes around the world; it's not just American. A great song can touch the world.

That's what was so amazing about 'Mulan.' Here is this story with all Chinese characters, and yet so many people related to her character and loved the story. So I really think as long as you have a good story that relates to a lot of people, it doesn't matter what ethnicity it is.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

Pop music doesn't challenge anything.

I hate the term 'emo.' It turned into this genre of music, when all music, if you connect with it, is emotional.

A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.

Anyone of any age or background who loved pop music liked our songs.

Songs like 'One Love' by Bob Marley - they stand the test of time - it doesn't matter - so anytime I write music, I try to write in tune with an emotion, and I hope there are more times like that for everyone.

I'm constantly trying to create timeless music that many people can gravitate to.

I'm not making music for intelligent people or dumb people. I'm just making music for people.

I don't compose songs to showcase my proficiency in music or to please hard-core music lovers. The basic criterion is that my work should reach all sections of music lovers.