Music as an Art Form Quotes

For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

The art, the greatness of the music, the experience of the music is what I'm about. I think most African artists have destroyed their artistry by commercialization, and I don't want to belong to that bag.

Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.

I think in London - and I don't wanna offend anybody in America, but this is a real statement - they still have the right approach to making music. In the U.S., people see it as a way to make money; they see it as a means to get out. It's a hustle, which is great - any way you can provide for your family that's legal is fantastic.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.

I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

I breathe music... The acting is a job, but music is life. You need a job to live.

I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old.

I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.

I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.

I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else.

Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.

I love my own music.

People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.

But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with other things which, it seems to me, I might do. Question here: 'What is the province of music in the economy of the world?'