Back in the day Quote by Rakim

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of…

— Mike Watt

I think we get on with living our lives like everybody else does. Where we're at in music is trying to explain what's going…

— Andy Gill

Music is what life sounds like.

— Eric Olson

If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.

— Peabo Bryson

Life has highs, lows, loud and quiet moments, beautiful ones and ugly ones. Music is a reflection of life.

— Bonobo

The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening…

— Immortal Technique

Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

— Carl Nielsen

Music isn't about music, it's about life.

— Herbie Hancock

For those of us who grew in the early hip hop era, that music shaped us in a way to be in a position…

— Rick Famuyiwa

Music is an expression of life, who you are, and what you've been through.

— Kamasi Washington

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

— Aristotle

Music is an expression of sound that reflects the beauty of life.

— Paul Winter