Good music will always be recognized in the end.
I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.
In the end, the best music will always rise to the top.
If it's good music, it's good music.
At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.
I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about.
A good song is a good song.
The historical importance of a composer does not always go hand in hand with the quality of their work.
Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.
It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.
For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.
I don't think a good singer or a great singer is either of those things without a great song.
Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
Music is in me. I don't have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and see my because of my famous last name, but if my music's not good they won't hang around.
The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent.
You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
Opening for certain acts after so many years of headlining obviously made us resentful. It was kind of hard watching all these bands, who I really believed didn't deserve to be on top musically, going ahead and pushing us out.
How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.
If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
