Music Quotes

Laying on the floor and listening to music might be all the therapy that you need.

People listened to Farsi texts, and to the great texts of our Baba Bulleh Shah, Khwaja Ghulam Farid, Mian Mohammad Bakhsh Jehlmi. People do listen to it these days, but much less than in those days.

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, ’cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else’s songs.

I started rapping since, like, 14. But I’ve been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard ‘Baby Don’t Cry,’ I’ll never forget.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

I just really want to make albums – and however I can, I will.

I started singing in the bathroom, Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.

I listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash – a lot of old country singers. Patsy Cline.

You are the only song I know all the words to.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.