I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.
For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house.
Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.
My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.
I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.
The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood.
I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.
For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.
I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
I think we're in a very low point of music right now.
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.
Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.
Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.
My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.
Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.
