Music Quotes

Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, ‘I’ve never seen anyone run like that before.’ It’s more than just a race, it’s a style. It’s doing something better than anyone else. It’s being creative.

I’ve been doing it since I was prepubescent when I loved to scratch records and play good music. As it happens, you know I sort of fell into the mix. I really feel like I played a role in bringing dance music to America years ago.

I’m starting to find out that a lot of people that you wouldn’t think listen to me really do.

Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

I’ve never recorded anything I didn’t like.

Music is Magic. Magic is Life.