My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
— Youssou N'Dour
When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
Music is a language.
You probably can overcome what you're going through from listening to my music.
— YoungBoy Never Broke Again
I don't like my music. I'll make a song, and if I do like it, I'll feel it, but after that 10th play, I don't like it no more.
My mom used to always play hip-hop around the crib, but moreso than that, she played reggae, and I grew up on reggae music more than I grew up on hip-hop.
— Young M.A
I try to make music for people to relate to, and I like to keep it realistic.
I think that's why I love music so much; I think if I didn't have music, I would be in a bad position.
Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
— Young Jeezy
I been doing music my whole life.
— Young Buck
Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.
— Yolandi Visser
There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.'
— Yolanda Adams
When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.
My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
— Yoko Ono
I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.
Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.
I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
I respect music, I do. I love it.
You can get to know me through my music.
I'm just trying to be myself - make music how I make music.
I paid attention to the music industry and watching a lot of stuff on TV, behind-the-scenes stuff on old DVDs, and paying attention to interviews from artists and rappers and just really watching a lot of stuff as a kid.
I held in being sexually attracted to women for so long that once I got that out of me, the music became easy.
All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
Music is how you feel.
If you use music boldly at the front of a scene, it creates another level.
— Yorgos Lanthimos
Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.
People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!
My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.
Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.
I think music made me who I am. Music taught me what was gutter and what wasn't. Music taught me how to live.
I wanted to try a different way of making music. That's what made me try different things with my voice.
When I was a kid, my favorite rapper was 50 Cent. He was definitely a big influence on why I wanted to do music.
Music is my expression. Music is my release. Music is my therapy.
I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.
When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.
For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.
As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.
Speaking seriously, 'Ikaruga' influenced how I synchronize the game sequences with the music. Combining the two in a way that appeals to people's hearts is a task that's quite difficult.
— Yoko Taro
I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.
DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.
