Akon Quotes

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

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

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

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

Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

I'm not a DJ - I don't know how to scratch or mix records, but I know how to party, and I know music. I grew up in Philly; it's a very musical city. My house was full of music.

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

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 feel like music is always alive and well.

They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles.

There's more to being a musician than just making music.

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

I really was kind of like a musical nerd. I would watch VH1's 'Behind The Music.' That was heavy when I was a kid. I would sit up and want to watch that all day instead of going outside sometimes.

If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.

I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.

I'm a musical person, and that's what I want my life to be about.

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.