To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.
Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.
Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.
Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
I don't know - the idea of a specific wine paired with a specific piece of music seems a little far-fetched to me. But maybe I just need to be opened to it.
I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.
When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.
Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all us kids had to be in the church choir.
My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around it, I played basketball.
I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.
We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.
There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.
Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.
I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.
Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.
I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
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.
Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't.
I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.'
