Musician Quotes

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.

Always follow your own path.

If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.

Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

My music is jazz.

When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.

People are doing what they can these days and looking for creative ways to sell music.

Once you really get into a song, other than just listening to it, it forces you to go 'oh, they did this. I never would have thought of doing that,' when you deconstruct it. It's something you really can't do sometimes when you're just listening to a song. You have to really get into it.

I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you a new perspective production-wise. It's easier for me, if I'm starting a new record, I like to produce a few songs that aren't mine just so it frees me up not to worry abou

I try not to take myself too seriously.

I grew up with the Beatles and they are still to this day my top band played in my iTunes.

At an independent label, you have to figure out inventive ways to promote without spending the money.

What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

Sound comes out of a life experience.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.

In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that.

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.

I hope they see the genuine side of me, of my music, of my voice. I hope that they feel me. I hope that what I sing and what I say really gets across to the viewer because everything that comes out is true.