Go Quote by Benny the Butcher

People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a…

— Robert Wyatt

When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people…

— Catie Curtis

People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't…

— Tom Waits

A lot of times when people listen to music it's because they feel down, and that's when serious hip-hop comes into play. When times…

— Rakim

People really do get on their songs and say anything. There's no point.

— Benny the Butcher

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going…

— Vince Gill

I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide…

— Dave Barry

You do get a lot of people complaining if you don't do songs they have come to expect. I have to be careful about…

— Colm Wilkinson

There are so many rappers now that it's cluttering our culture. 90% of the time at a show there are more artists in the…

— Statik Selektah

If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to…

— Rodney Crowell

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give…

— Will Oldham

I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it's a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers - whatever sound is…

— Nas