Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

‚Wrecking Ball‘ is a great song.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

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 just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, ‚What kind of music do you make?‘, and you say, ‚Pop music.‘ You may as well have ‚I’m not cool‘ stamped on your forehead.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

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.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that’s all me.

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.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

When my record comes on, you know that’s a DJ Khaled record. That’s my formula, and the people love it.

‚Doo-wop‘ is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

A ‚scream‘ is always just that – a noise and not music.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

When I put out ‚Video Games‘ in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It’s what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

Lord, help my poor soul.

Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

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

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‚Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this‘ – have become commonplace in films and music too.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we’re a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn’t being ironic.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

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.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

I’m not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

I wrote ‚Channel Orange‘ in two weeks. The end product wasn’t always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?