R. Kelly Quotes

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.

I have a very difficult time describing my music.

I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

Anything with music, you got to have inspiration. You got to have inspiration to do good music.

The Fender Precision is my instrument, my beloved Precisions.

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

I write my music.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

All music has to speak in some form or other.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.