Ledisi Quotes

I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That's the whole idea about what I love about art and music.

I've had a wonderful life with music.

The great love of my life is music.

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

'Let the music play on' would be my legacy.

There's nothing better than lifting somebody's spirit with music.

We wanted to make music to fit with the way we live and celebrate life.

I've tried to write songs that just make people feel happy and good.

Music is my soul and I can easily say, it is the secret of my youth.

Music is a very integral part of my life because I was born into a musical family, and it's not just a passion... it's everything for me.

Music is everything to me, and I'm most grateful that it's all working out.

Music brings life to my soul.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

I wake up each and every day with a smile on my face knowing I get to do something musically.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

I have loved music so much from when I was little, and I don't know whether it was because I saw my dad doing it and then I got the idea; I don't know what came first... But I always had a hairbrush in the mirror singing. I was always with him backstage; I would go out and be pulled in for the last song.

Always upbeat, always happy, always putting you in a good mood. That's what I want to achieve with my music.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.