They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.
Life is joyful; life is wonderful. Life is love's shrine. When you're my moon, I am your star. Oh my eternal valentine.
I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!
When having that one person in my life and him going away, becomes the difference between life and death, I'll know I am in love.
Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world.
I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is.
Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
I certainly have a fascination with pop music as a musical form, not necessarily as a lifelong commitment. I guess you could say I'm like a Casanova of music. I can't seem to settle down with one musical form.
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.
Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.
The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Music without passion is merely noise. A life without passion? You may as well be dead.
If you can strike the cord of consistency on the guitar of life, the world will dance to your music of greatness
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
You may only be a small musical note in the realms of life, but together with others you make a symphony.
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
