Real Music Quotes

How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.

When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.

I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.

Real music doesn't always win Grammys

We're a band's band. We have real songs, real players, real problems. Real ups, real downs.

That is the music that I have always wanted to play: real, genuine guitar music.

Anyone who knows music knows that Neil is about as real as it can get, and this along with seeing him perform 'Harvest Moon' on 'SNL' was my first experience knowing what real music really felt like.

I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.

I actually sing. There's no lip-syncing whatsoever. Everything is live, and it's real. It's not fake.

I don't like listening to music that isn't real.

Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.

I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.

Before the money or anything, number one, it was just to put out real music, real stuff with a passion, real art.

Even with so many artists using auto-tune, there's still a growing group of artists rising up and going in the opposite direction, making music that's real and fresh. And those cats are getting back to the basics without auto-tune. And a lot of those cats are packing out venues without getting played on the radio!

When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

Shout out to J. Cole. We come from the same type of struggles. He put the real in his music, I put the real in mine.

I've always been an artist who's about being real and about telling the truth and making music with integrity and talking about something.

Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.

'Free the Gang,' that's my favorite song because it's so real. All my music is real, it's authentic, but it's something about that song that I love.

The biggest thing when you come to my show live... is that you get to know the person's heart - the stories behind the songs, the depth of the music and there will be some amazing worship moments. You'll get an amazing experience because this is real to me and you'll see that.

Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the music industry. Music was getting more and more dead in a way. Now, because of the social climate that's very severe, the artists are compelled to start being real. It's really great that indie music is now.

I think the best music is honest music.

A lot of projects I do be all 'real' music.

I want to bring real music back but make it marketable and mainstream. To me, real music isn't everything being synthesized, computerized.

The Independent Record Store is the reason why i STILL do music...It seems like they're the only ones that Really care about the real music lovers...we need them...they're our balance to all of the music we are FORCED to listen to...they're the only ones that may still suggest something NEW and FRESH instead of just what's popular.