Quotes About Expression

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

The one thing you'll notice when you're walking through Harlem is every single passing car is playing different music and there's also music that's being played out of windows.

I want, more than anything, to bring some light back to people's lives through my music. The beauty of music is that it is a universal language that everyone understands.

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now

I love house music. I love all music.

I love music so much; I've always played.

I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm going all out in those terms.

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

Music is my life and my passion.

Music begins and ends in the air - it's got to be shared.

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

I always listen to music when I write, I need a rhythm to write.

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.

I love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of music. I just need to enjoy the process.

I have produced all kinds of music because I love all kinds of music.

Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they all become beautiful.