Drake Quotes

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.

I first came across Langhorne Slim when I saw him play live, and he's an incredibly infectious performer. The way he works the crowd is mind-blowing. You can listen to his music without really listening to his lyrics, but it pays off if you do.

I love performing live and engaging with my fans on-ground.

I love performing, and connecting with an audience never gets old for me.

I like hooks and choruses, things people can sing to.

The music comes alive when you actually perform it in front of a crowd.

I love good beats and good lyrics. I'm pretty open.

I don't really like doing big stand-up. Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up. I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.

When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it.

Being an M.C. is all about just going for the throat.

There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.