But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.
When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.
Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.
People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music.
In Jamaica, the music is recorded for the sound system, not the iPod. It's about experiencing music together, with other people.
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.
Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.
The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.
The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.
I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.
The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.
Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.
It's just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means 'for now.'
What's scummy about the music industry is that everybody loves you when you're dead.
One thing I've always loved doing is hanging out and talking music with other artists.
I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.
I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.
I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.
Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.
I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.
I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.
