Music Quotes

You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn’t it popular?

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist.

Music is something no one can control.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It’s true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

I suppose I’ve always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general – in literature, in music, politics, whatever – and to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves. I don’t think that I have that quality, that strength of mind.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

I know when it comes to the actual narrative of my solo music, it’s its own thing. That’s why I went out of my way after ‘Crew’ to not do a bunch of collaborations.

Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.