C418 Quotes

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

I like a lot of different kinds of music. I like strong projects, big music.

As long as it's good music, that's what's important.

All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

Good music is good music.

I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.

I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper.

There was nothing extraordinary about the work I was doing as a composer though I had delivered hits.

I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.

I have experimented with various genres of music, whether its rock, pop, slow songs, etc.

I'm a very textural composer. I care a lot about textures and gestures. Electronics add so much to that. It's like a flavor - it creates so much texture.

As always, my influences are diverse and not what you might expect from a 'heavy metal' artist.

I don't really call myself a composer.

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

I think I sing a few songs, and I sing them well, and one of them is the mob genre, you know, as a writer.

I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music.

I found that music was my favorite art form.