Skepta Quotes

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

Progressive music probably wouldn't even really exist if not for the people of the United States having picked up on it and nurtured it in the way they did. It really is an American form of music in the sense that it was nurtured here. So it belongs here. It has become part of the fabric of American musical culture.

When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music.

I do love dance music, but at the same time, I'm not looking to put out a big pop album. You've got to be the best you can be.

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

I completely understand the responsibility I have in continuing the sonic style that I have created.

I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.

Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by rock and roll. It's the music of our time, and it's 'in the air,' as Steve Reich would say. My experience of it is just really direct because I'm actually playing in a collaborative band.

I never tried to emulate The Beatles, and I never really wanted to be like The Rolling Stones. I never really felt that I had the look or the demeanor of veteran musicians.

There would be no Static-X if I didn't write all the songs.

For me, the one thing I've got going for me in terms of my attributes as a musician is vision.

I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.

I thought I would be in a band like Arcade Fire or be like Fiona Apple - but pop just made sense to me.

Rock n' roll doesn't change. All the idiocies and pretension continue.

If you're going to go the way of 'American Idol,' then you better be able to do what you want musically, because just going for the fame will only keep you happy for so long.

I listen to many forms of music. And I come from a very particular style and tradition of music, which has certain elements that are absolutely unique and, therefore, important to the world.

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing my own music.

I come from a time when music used to make a difference.

I didn't want to be one of the Beach Boys or one of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band. I mean, we appreciated that music. But I didn't want to grow a beard to look like Roy Wood just because I liked him.

Growing up and playing guitar with my dad and stuff like really influenced me. It definitely must've had an impact on why Miley wanted to sing and why I wanted to sing and play guitar as well.

All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a father figure for generations.

I think that for every artist, it's very important to have an output and to feel very strongly about the music you're producing.

I was drawn to music from a super early age. At school, my ego co-opted it to some degree and I would use it to gain some sort of social credibility.

All my music sounds the same to me.