My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.
I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.
Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.
People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I like Chief Keef, so it's always super awkward. I just make music I like.
I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's thriving. People are so happy Chicago's shining that everyone is willing to say 'I represent Chicago.' That wasn't always the case.
I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.
When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.
I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.
No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.
Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'
My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.
Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.
The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.
I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.
Real music to me is real; it's what you feel.
But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert.
When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.
When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.
We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives.
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
