“Everything that’s out now…rap wise and music wise in general [is whack]. I mean, you know whack when you see it. So I’m on a crusade against whackness, and I hope no whackness comes my way. That’s my move, my mission for this record: to combat whackness on all fronts – to make sure that people know what quality music is. It’s not so much about message, but have something to say.” PeopleKnowsWayMeanMovingQualityRecordsWiseFrontsMessagesMusic IsRapMissionsMy WayCombatCrusadesQuality Music Author:Jeru the Damaja
“Dancehall music is perceived as party music, which it is because of the rhythm, but there are messages that do come through or a purpose of an artist saying something to the world. People usually don't get the messages because of the partying.” PeopleWorldPurposeArtistPartyMessagesMusic IsRhythmDancehall Author:Sean Paul
“Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.” WorldWayWantMessagesMusic IsDelivering Author:Conor Oberst
“Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.” MeanCharacterFactsLanguageMusicMessagesMusic IsUnderstoodCreatorContradictory Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“The fundamental message of the Wu Tang music is as vast as the ocean in all reality, but it's still a straight path. You can take one lyric and by researching what that lyric is giving out to you, it should give you more than a day's worth of school, maybe three days' worth of school.” GivingShouldStillsRealitySchoolThreePathOceanMessagesMusic IsFundamentalsStraight Path Author:RZA
“I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.” FatherMessagesMusic Is Author:Ziggy Marley
“My music is more like ghetto gospel; there's a message in my words, so people listen. Sometimes you might here different things; it depends on how you feel. You might feel down, and I might be the cat in the same sentence saying, "You need to get up and do your thing." And then I could be the same cat, when you at the top of your game, telling you, "It feel good, don't it?" but with the same words.” PeopleNeedsFeelsDifferentSometimesMightGamesDependsMessagesMusic IsCatDown AndSentencesFeel GoodGet UpDifferent ThingsGhettoHow You Feel Author:Young Jeezy
“Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.” SometimesPlayerMajorsMessagesMusic IsBeatsSingersStatementsPoetry IsSweatBassCarrierBass Players Author:Nikki Giovanni
“The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.” MenLittlesBigsMessagesMusic IsMinistryUpstairsHappiness And Love Author:Al Green
“This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.” StruggleMessagesMusic IsVehicleReggaeFreedom And Peace Author:Bob Marley
“And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.” LittlesJoyCoursesMessagesMusic IsSimplicityPopsPop MusicPositive Messages Author:Feist
“There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the elitist coffeehouse culture in SoHo. It' s rock 'n' roll music for kids across the land, and I think that makes it much more subversive in a way, in that it has the form and the function of a powerful, populist music, but it can carry very incendiary messages.” ThinkingWayHas BeensHardKidsFormCulturePowerfulFansLandRocksMessagesMusic IsFunctionRock N RollRock MusicSubversivePopulistElitistApatheticHard RockSohoRock N Roll Music Author:Tom Morello
“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.” PeopleMessagesMusicianMusic IsCarrieMessengersTrue Beauty Author:Roy Ayers
“Part of my big message with all this is that if you are alive, you know all you need to know about the message of classical music, because more than any other music, it is about the way life really is.” IfsKnowsWayNeedsBigsAliveMessagesMusic IsClassical Music Author:Michael Tilson Thomas
“The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'” IfsSocialStuffSuccessfulInformationMessagesMusic IsLegsIndispensableSlickSuave Author:Iggy Pop
“'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.” ThinkingMayImportantPhilosophyTodayBeautifulEvilSoundMountainMessagesMusic IsProfoundCriticsStatementsClimbsAccommodateSound Of Music Author:Jon Voight
“Music is so strong, so powerful, and such an amazing tool and bands that don't take that into account and feel that they are not responsible for their message is a bunch of baloney.” FeelsStrongPowerfulBandMessagesMusic IsToolsAccountsResponsibleBunchBaloney Author:Michael Sweet
“My music is very edgy and the energy is very raw, but I am also getting out this positive message without being a teacher. I don't want to hear anybody preach or teach things to me, especially when I was a kid. But there are messages that people are grabbing onto without me even realizing that they are messages.” PeopleWantKidsEnergyRealizingTeachTeacherMessagesMusic IsEdgyGrabbingBeing A TeacherPositive Messages Author:Shane Bunting
“I like pop music because it can really affect a large amount of people and if I tell stories and spread messages that I think are really important for people to be aware of, I would want it to be on the biggest platform and I feel like pop is that. I use it as a way to tell stories.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantFeelsImportantStoriesUseAmountMessagesMusic IsSpreadPopsPlatformsPop Music Author:Melanie Martinez
“We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.” PeopleGivingBelieveIdeasMessagesMusic IsInspiredBelieve In GodAlmighty Author:Ziggy Marley