Sly Stone Quotes

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

The truth is I want to make music that people enjoy.

Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been a really fun and blessed ride.

I am an extremely energetic person, and my party songs have managed to click with the listeners.

I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.

I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

The thing about 'Hold Back The River' that I like is that it's a good starting place, and it was the perfect first single.

There is a difference between a great producer and somebody who is a big advocate of your music. Just because you're a big advocate for a band doesn't mean you need to be in the studio with them, and at the same time - we don't need to get into this conversation - you can write a hit, but it might not hit.

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.

Well, what's interesting, I try not to think about the radio when I'm writing a song. I want people to love the song, and that means it might not be exactly thinking about the radio, but it's thinking about your audience and saying, 'I want people to like this song after it's done.'

I always wanted to make an album, but I knew that I didn't want it to be a musical theater album. It's not that I don't love them - I own every musical theater album ever made - but it just didn't seem right for me.

I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to let the people whose job it was to decide what places to put it, and let them do that. I'll stick to the singing part.

I'm not trying to say I'm this artist who is all artsy and that I only write music for myself, because I don't. I write music for other people to enjoy, so I think about if it'd be an idea someone else would like.

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

I'm treating country music like it's a sport. I'm looking at where my competition is and realized I needed to work on my songwriting.

A stadium tour would be amazing - that's definitely one of my goals. Just to keep putting out real, honest music that people can really relate to and connect with.

I'm not making music to get played in a club.

I just want to make music people like.

I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.

At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

I just want to make music that people hear, and I'm not ashamed of that.

I will continue making music, whether or not I get opportunities in films. I know I have fans who like to listening to me sing.

Mos is a true artist who has a story to tell and gives back through his music. He remixed my song 'Different' in 2005, and the song we're working on now will be one of my future projects.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.