I don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

I’ve been asking myself: ‚Why put together these things – CDs, albums?‘ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists‘ part.

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

I love that Cadillac ATS!

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

Every album, I make big records. I’m going to always make an anthem. That’s what I do.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

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

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

I wouldn’t call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I’ll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I’m listening to music and think, ‚Oh, there’s not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.‘

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

Lyrics are so important, but they’re really underrated.

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

When I’m writing, I’m thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don’t translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

It’s insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it’s assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It’s that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he’s telling you something about his own life. It’s so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

You go to a festival, you know you’re not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I’ve made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap – and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and ‚Heart Shaped Box‘ and stuff on ‚In Utero‘ just happened that way.

I’m an iPod person.

Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.

From the late 1940s, into and through the ’50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I’m at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

Music is always a commentary on society.

I hate the idea of genres.

I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn’t have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that – except I couldn’t afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.

I’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It’s all hip-hop. You can’t say that just what I do is hip-hop, because hip-hop is all energies. James Brown can get on the track and mumble all day. But guess what? You felt his soul on those records.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

I’m the slowest driver in the world.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

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

I don’t want to make niche-oriented music.