I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal..
All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a pla….
The function of pop music is to be consumed..
Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics..
Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it..
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die..
How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a p….
When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy"..
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself..
All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion o….
The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari..
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primiti….
The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of sto….
When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free..
I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune..
Without music, life would be a blank to me..
Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a ….
When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch s….
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human faili….
He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy white cloud and listening to s….
I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices..