“Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.” ImportantSelfHelpingEmotionStruggleOur LivesIdentityExpressionMusic IsPopsReleaseClichePop MusicSelf ExpressionSoundtracks Author:Sarah Churchwell
“This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.” StruggleMessagesMusic IsVehicleReggaeFreedom And Peace Author:Bob Marley
“Music is so hard to talk about in many ways, It communicates beyond what our language can put across, and having to sit there and analyze it and talk about it is a struggle for me.” WayHardLanguageStruggleMusic IsCommunicate Author:Jeff Martin
“There were times when I would suddenly realize making music is a crazy pipe dream. I would see bands that did super well in South Africa still struggling to survive, or even people on the international level who are doing well but financially can't really support themselves.” PeopleWellsStillsDreamRealizingLevelsSupportStruggleCrazyBandMusic IsSouthInternationalSouth AfricaPipePipe DreamsStruggling To Survive Author:St. Lucia
“Maybe my great struggle, and it's probably not anything different from too many other people, but it certainly is what drives the music, is a hugely internal one.” PeopleDifferentStruggleMusic IsInternals Author:El-P
“When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres back then were different. The café life really stemmed from the Parisians' idea of it, with poets struggling over their poems and drinking coffee. No music, no sounds, maybe a little jazz, or soul, but mostly nothing. Now you go into a café and the music is really loud, people are having business meetings, they are on their cellphones. It changes from generation to generation.” PeopleWritingLittlesIdeasDifferentSoulHomeYoungSoundStruggleGenerationsPoetMusic IsJazzMeetingsDrinkingNotionCoffeeAtmosphereLoudCellphoneDrinking CoffeeBusiness Meeting Author:Patti Smith
“I really focus on what my fans will take from it, people living their day-to-day lives. At the end of the day, the music isn't for me; it's for people who are going through their struggles and want to relate to someone who feels the same way they do. I've got to go all-in, expressing myself, right there in the moment.” PeopleMomentsStruggleFocusMusic Is Author:Kendrick Lamar
“Music is the highest art form.I still think that. I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a decent song, but it was a big struggle. It took a lot of time and effort for me, whereas a lot of my peers and other people seemed to have a much easier relationship to it. But I profoundly love music, and I still dream that I might one day try to write some new songs and record something - just for myself, to see what would happen.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingArtDreamSongWishEffortStruggleOne DayMusic IsDecent Author:Johan Renck