Music Quotes

A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.

Together, we can nurture the talent of the future and bring the empowering force of music and the arts to a new generation.

My dad's name is Robert Stafford. His music name is R. L. Stafford; he makes gospel music.

Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

As Bob Marley says, 'We must carry on.' So he has left us a legacy of music to carry on for generations and generations into generations.

I associate colors with music, or music with colors.

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.

Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Music took me from a real dark place to a real bright one.

Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other.

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.

I knew that I wanted to create a restaurant like Hard Rock Cafe or Planet Hollywood that celebrated not just music or Hollywood, but who we were as people of color, as Caribbean, African, Cajun and Southern people.

Growing up, I was trying to make it in music. I was grinding, which is just what I loved doing. I didn't have nothing else to do. In my spare time, I'd record myself. Find a beat, pulling em up. Just making something and creating for me.

When I was in Milwaukee, I would go into this sneaker shop near my mom's salon and chop it up with the older heads about music. At school, I would make drum noises on the table so much that I would always get suspended.

We put our music together, piece by piece, like a jigsaw puzzle.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.