Musician Quotes

I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.

I love rap.

I love kids.

I just live one day at a time.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

I don't have aluminum foil on my windows anymore.

I believe everything happens under God's plan anyway.

After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.

Well, I just bought a massive bank and I've moved into it on my own.

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

It started off at a club called Disobey, around the corner from where I live.

I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff.

I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell.

Can't really despise people you don't know.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.

I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.

I took back my life.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.

I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.

I figured I could do 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World', because I believe it's the truth.

I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.

Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.