“I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.” ThinkingTryingWellsGamesParticularMusic IsRapVideoGangstersScapegoatRap MusicGangster Rap Author:Ice Cube
“I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.” WayHardPoetryLiteratureStuffDoorsRocksParticularMusic IsGunRoseLoudAnother WayMetallicaHard RockGuns N RosesLoud Music Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.” ThinkingDoeHandsJobsEnvironmentEmotionalParticularMaterialsHonorMusicianMusic IsAbstractionImperativesAccommodateLyricalUpper Hand Author:Sufjan Stevens
“I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.” IfsKnowsWorldWayWritingKindDifferentMomentsWould BeAgeFacesAudienceSuccessfulSawsStageParticularMusicianMusic IsConcernedLifetimeFinishedDifferent KindsSongwritersKeep The FaithDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:Bruce Springsteen
“What I like about electronic music is you don't really need to be that learned or educated in any particular context. You can just make sound, noise even, whatever it may be.” NeedsMaySoundParticularMusic IsNoiseEducatedElectronic Music Author:Justin Broadrick
“Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular era, everybody wanted you to have a profession -- a doctor, a lawyer, and so forth. So she sent me to school to study medicine.” WantWantedSchoolBlackClassGrowing UpStudyMiddleParticularMomMusic IsDoctorsMedicineProfessionLawyerErasMiddle ClassWant MePlaying MusicBlack Family Author:Don Alias
“I like traditional music. I listen to a lot of it. There is no particular reason to present these recordings. I love what I do so I find ways to keep doing what I love. Music is certainly not all that interests me. I hear things my own way and I present them. Sound is inspiring and I can be quite obssessive with certain sounds.” WayI CanReasonCertainSoundInterestMy OwnParticularMusic IsTraditionalMusic LoveI Love MusicTraditional Music Author:Alan Bishop