Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana… plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

My music is a luxury.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Britney Spears was an incredible dancer. That kid was amazing.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

Latin music is universal.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there’s no fitting into it now.

Until it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.

Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

I’ve always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn’t exist without the performance-art element.

The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

I don’t think a song should be put in a category.

So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.