Madlib Quotes

A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.

Good music is good music.

He comes in on the beat and plays on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love, he hears drums instead of Ravel.

The first time I stepped on stage and I started singing, I knew that I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.

A good microphone is an essential thing for a singer.

My muse has always been the piano.

We love music, and when it's good we flip. And we want to get to the core of why it's good.

What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset.

I think a lot of our songs are good.

I think that Bach has a very nice sound on the lute. But I find that what I want to do with Bach is best revealed on the guitar.

Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.

Performance and music are inexorably tied together. And hell, I'll watch Brittany's Toxic music video all day. But there's a difference between that and listening to Leo Kottke play guitar. One is entertainment. The other is Music.

Did you play? It sounded very good.

I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.