Macklemore Quotes

I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.

You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.

I think music is supposed to be shared.

It's important to keep music in your life in some way.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music.

I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

I am really addicted to music.

I definitely make time for music.

I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that.

I hope I don't give music a bad name.

I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.

Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.

I just want to bring the people good music.

I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

Music will always be there. I own a piano. I have it in my apartment. I play it every day, and I have a lot of musician friends who I play with.

I want my music to be everywhere, I want it to be heard. I want to give people an opportunity to enjoy my music, and maybe even hear about this beautiful truth that's in it.