Lupe Fiasco
Related You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always t... ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN CRAIG GROESCHEL JARON LANIER I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why... KRISTIN HERSH FRED HAMPTON I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a... MARK BRADFORD PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON LUPE FIASCO I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of ha... NATALIA KILLS Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU GARY ALLAN One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are fun... GLENN HOWERTON People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facil... GERHARD RICHTER When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You se... YOUNG JEEZY I'm just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there&#... TRISTAN WILDS I'm not a big equipment guy; I think that people are a little bit shocked by that. I really don&... DAVE SITEK A. R. RAHMAN C. JOYBELL C. RICKY SKAGGS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ... NAOMI SCOTT ADAM DURITZ JOYCE MEYER KAMALA HARRIS I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anythin... JUSTIN VERNON I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn'... WATKIN TUDOR JONES People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an i... EUGENE FAMA I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the re... JANE SIBERRY Not to get too deep, but I think one of the reasons we embrace superheroes and this world is that th... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I t... K. ERIC DREXLER LOUIS TOMLINSON JIDENNA My mood board says that there should be a G.O.O.D. Music festival. Why not? Like, we haven't - I... PUSHA T Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They do... YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND I'm not a jukebox; I don't play exactly what the crowd wants to hear - that doesn't make... ARMIN VAN BUUREN That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can ... GASTON CAPERTON G-EAZY BRYAN WHITE I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and the... TAIO CRUZ MARC JACOBS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I needed a break, and going to culinary school turned a lightbulb on that I didn't have to make ... KELIS KATHRYN MINSHEW DAVID GILMOUR A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of... ART BLAKEY TOM PETTY TYGA Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a... ALICIA KEYS JAY-Z MARY LAMBERT ANNIE PARISSE I urge younger artists to know that you don't have to be anything you don't want. You can do... TREY SONGZ The diversity of America is a strength of the country, and I don't think that we use that. We do... STEVE STOUTE MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS BILLY CORGAN I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't. GARY NUMAN Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic,... TAYLOR HANSON I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living ... BRUCE COCKBURN MANDY MOORE That part, that internal dialogue that has a lot of ups and downs and darks and lights and stuff - t... CAM Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that... MARK HOPPUS Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you&... CHRISTINE ELISE BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with mu... IAN MACKAYE DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF LINDA RONSTADT If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, thing... DREW POMERANZ You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything.... JASON ALDEAN I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorp... FLORENCE WELCH SCOTT DERRICKSON I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid.... CARLENE CARTER You have to be the one promoting yourself. If you don't think that you're worthy, you're... MISTY COPELAND Some of my fans don't really like it when I respond to people who say things that are trying to ... RICKIE FOWLER Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is ess... BARRY HANNAH The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that... EDDIE TRUNK What's important is that people realize that I can't be put into a box musically. I've s... TREY SONGZ If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... SNOOP DOGG I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do i... DAN GLICKMAN In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept w... BENMONT TENCH I don't think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability... RICHARD PARSONS Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're go... SKYLAR GREY Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or ... KARA DIOGUARDI GREG BEHRENDT We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those pe... ANDY BIERSACK MARK ZUCKERBERG DORIS LESSING ORNETTE COLEMAN MARK RYLANCE I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the ti... ELLE FANNING You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes yo... JOHN ABERCROMBIE SUE TOWNSEND I don't hate on the whole EDM thing happening in America because, although the music is not of m... JAMIE XX I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock w... BRUNO DUMONT DIMEBAG DARRELL CHRIS HARDWICK ERIC CLAPTON
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The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. 
Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're sayi... 
Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We... 
If we don't stop immigration - this torrent of immigrants coming in - we're not going to be ... 
Once you've been on tour six, seven years, you get an idea of what works and what doesn't wo... 
I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like ... 
The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to sta... 
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bl... 
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums ha... 
When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we ch... 
What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are... 
My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't... 
I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, '... 
Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live... 
I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're bor... 
We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of... 
You don't hire for mediocrity. Instead, you bring people onto your team because you know that th... 
I can't help other people's frustrations. I don't owe people anything. If people would l... 
When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So ... 
At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. ... 
I think the problem with people, as they start to mature, they say, 'Rap is a young man's ga... 
I think no matter how you think about your music, you're ultimately in the music 'business.&... 
Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or... 
I don't just want to sing about simplistic things all the time. It's good to have a mix of s... 
People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don&... 
We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I th... 
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't... 
I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an ... 
I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much ... 
I have friends who are scientists, strict materialists, who don't think science and religion are... 
The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I nee... 
I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not... 
When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. ... 
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped.... 
That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whe... 
The bad, angry, upset, wounded people are more interesting, so they're in the news more, but I d... 
I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things li... 
Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one s... 
I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people ar... 
I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survive... 
That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's ... 
I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also gr... 