- Nov 07, 2020
Music Quotes
Quotes on music and creative calling.
These quotes describe music as near-constant background for some, and as a true calling for others - one line simply states a feeling of being destined for it. A few discuss resisting one narrow sound in favor of exploring many styles. Related reading includes Funny Quotes.
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rarely like the music I make. It's like nothing's good enough. I just stay in my head, waiting on the next best beat, so I can do something better than what I did.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to work very hard on music, put out a lot of nice product - good quality product - and then just help people out, like a Gucci Mane, like a Future... like a Prince, like a Michael Jackson.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm hands-on with everything. From music to a car to remodeling a house - anything. People don't know that stuff, though, 'cause I put all my focus into music and being mysterious a little bit.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal for the rap game is just to make a lot of really dope music. That's really where I keep my mindset at: Just being obsessed over making something crazy and new every day.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were a few labels scouting me, but I felt like G.O.O.D. had my best interest at heart. They gave me the freedom to really do what I want, which is to expand my brand, make great music, and find ways to elevate my sound.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a propaganda machine. I tell things how I see them. When I say, for example, that corruption is not the only thing the West should think about when they think about Nigeria, I'm not saying it doesn't exist but that people have the complete wrong focus. There's music, there's art, there's culture.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.
- Exciting
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Rangeela' and 'Daud' are both exciting films. The songs, the music, the dances - they all blend so well.
- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is, I make music I like. So it's just weird if someone says they don't like it.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020