There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.
I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.
That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.
I grew up doing theater and music, and in fact, I spent more time doing theater, and I'd do music when I could.
When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.
I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.
Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.
Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.
Art, and above all, music has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks to draw towards a total exaltation in which the indi...
Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music? When you think of it, some of that bab...
The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a ...
I like music a lot.
And in the vine of the divine, There is a fine line; Between tragedy and comedy, That a man cannot define.
