Rakim Quotes

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

After every concert, I greet young people in the lobbies. And I see a huge surge of young people playing music.

The work I've done through my Common Culture Music series has enabled me not only to share my joy of music at scale but also promote the artists I love.

Keep doing what you do, and people that enjoy what you do are gonna buy your music and love on you.

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.

I want y'all to know that all of the music I make is for the people that truly appreciate it and care about it.

I love music, whoever makes it. Whoever makes great music in the entire world I am their fan because I love music so much. I am each and everybody's fan who is putting their music out there.

My fans love everything. You can find my fans at a Drake show; you'll find my fans at Post Malone all the way to Pink. They just love music in general.

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

We're incredibly excited to be launching Communion in America, where not only are there literally thousands of excellent musicians that we want to promote, but it's also a country full of passionate music fans that we want to feel part of the Communion experience. It's a massive deal for us to expand, and we cannot wait to get cracking.

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.

We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.

We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.

Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

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

One thing about Texas people, they're very passionate about their Rock N' Roll, and I love it.

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

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

I don't have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me because I am totally appreciative, and I like my fans! They seem to have the same interests as me. They are kind of nerdy and cool - and have good taste, obviously.

There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization without music. When you realize today that music is such a part of people's lives. And will always be, really.