Kehlani Quotes

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

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.

There's a lot of music in my life, and I found it a very important part of my life.

I listen to music all the time. I need music and I love music and I appreciate it. It inspires me.

I like all kinds of music, be it old Hindi movie songs or English classics.

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 wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.

I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs.

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

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

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

I'm a fan of music in general.

I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I don't know if that counts as studying. I didn't study jazz. I was supposed to.

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

I was listening to Ministry and Garth Brooks and Charlie Pride and Wynton Marsalis, and then I would listen to Juvenile or Lil Wayne. It's just that I'm a big fan of music. I'm a student of music. And I just want to learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.

Being a musician has actually surrounded and immersed me in pop culture and youth culture from a very young age. But even before I was singing in bands and creating any kind of art, I was always fascinated by pop culture.

I'm kind of a geek when it comes to talking about chord structures or melody, so I always loved in-depth conversations with musicians about things. I also enjoy when a fan can just put something on, and they really know nothing about music other than they like it and it touches them in some way.

Musically, I just like when people are knowledgeable about music and they can talk to you about it.

Contextualize the music. I really hope to do more of that.

I started playing piano and guitar when I was in elementary school, and then I was finally like, 'I want to sing.' So I started taking voice lessons and decided I wanted to go to an art school and take music seriously.