#music

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#class #classics #literature #machinery #medicine

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets. ↗

— Spike Lee

#draw #entertaining #films #good #good story

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it. ↗

— Spike Lee

#america #country #history #honest #i

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum. ↗

— Spike Lee

#curriculum #cutting #degraded #gym #had

I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other. ↗

— John Legend

#each #feel #i #like #many

I make music with no boundaries. ↗

— Pitbull

#i #make #music

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music. ↗

— John Legend

#five #i #making #music #stevie

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three. ↗

— John Legend

#amp #anybody #between #black #black music

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that. ↗

— John Legend

#business #day #end #end of the day #few

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet. ↗

— John Legend

#get #hearing #i #listen #lot