Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Thundercat
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Thundercat.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass.
I've never been called the black sheep. Everybody in my family had something weird about them, like, 'What's wrong with you?!' We all were black sheep.
Reading and exercising are two things in life that are not necessary.
I don't think it's corny to pray at all.
I went to Locke High School in Watts towards the end of the super gangbanging era.
Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.
My first reaction to playing at Coachella was like a kid who has no idea of the rules. I just wanted to go have a jam session with my friends. I didn't get that we couldn't just jump on one another's stages while they were performing!
I was playing bass when I was a kid; I play bass now. I used to draw pictures when I was a kid, and I draw pictures now. I talked backwards and weird when I was a kid, and I talk backwards now.
I've grown up with jazz - the Joe Hendersons, Oliver Nelsons, Miles Davis and stuff - but I was also listening to, like, Slipknot, Korn, and Rage Against the Machine. There was all of that weaved - interweaved - in there, and being from L.A., you tend to know your musical history.
I try and act like I'm all there. But I'm not!
At the end of the day, it's not like were not going to die. It's not like there is this one guy that's, like, 900.
Heartbreak is a real thing.
I personally didn't realize people would enjoy my voice, I guess. I'm happy that they do, but I didn't know what to expect.
My parents were very encouraging in having us get into the arts, whereas I have a lot of friends that didn't have that.
I remember, with Kendrick on 'To Pimp a Butterfly,' I was in tears. I literally was because it had pulled me and pushed me and stretched me and crushed me and expanded me. It was like I didn't know which way was up. By the end of it, I felt like I was floating in the ocean like a carcass.
I do enjoy a bit of the fantasy world that anime provides, but at the same time, I need the reality in it. I'm very much a stickler about the actual animation. I'm not into the cutesy, stereotypical animation with big eyes and a small chin. That annoys the hell out of me.
You love 'Dragon Ball Z' for what it is, but when you really start to look at it, you're like, 'What the hell am I watching?' sometimes.
The world is sick.
I don't play with toys anymore. I mean, I do play with toys, but not like when I was a kid. I don't crash cars into each other, but now I collect certain toys.
It's a blessing and a curse at the same time, the idea of genre.
When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.
I treat my cat like she's my therapist or something, because I talk to her all the time, and as she's gotten older, she talks back. It's pretty funny.
I love Gino Vannelli! I love every one of his albums. He's one of my favourite songwriters - straight up.
Sometimes you gotta get stupid with yourself, and you gotta enjoy your own company some time.
There's worse things in life than death.
I can fall asleep in the shower without drowning.
You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch, but the best crutch I could have.
I actually went to an arts middle school with Shia LaBeouf, but even there, I was one of the weirder kids.
Sometimes I practice to Allan Holdsworth or John McLaughlin, but I don't just practice to jazz and jazz-fusion albums. I'll practice to TV theme music - one of my favorites is 'M*A*S*H.' I'll just play along with anything on the TV.
Azealia Banks - love what she's doing.
If somebody can make a joke about you on TV, that's so beautiful. You've affected pop culture to that degree.
At the start of high school, I looked like a girl... to a very major degree. I had really long hair and a really round face with no facial hair. And I went to a very rough high school.
'Looney Tunes' was not a children's cartoon. I don't care what anybody says. It was very politically charged, very racial. And then they tried to soften it up for kids later. But it was for the adults.
Singing and playing live can be difficult. Like, in the studio, I would record either the music track first or the vocal first. I don't necessarily do them together.
Driving around with my dad, growing up, he would play everything: Philip Bailey, Manhattan Transfer, Frank Zappa, Cream. I'd be like, 'Dad, cut this stuff off!' And he'd say, 'No, you're gonna listen to it.' I didn't understand why he liked it so much. In my mind, I would be thinking about the theme song to 'Sonic the Hedgehog.'
I'm kind of a simple guy. The best way you can describe it is, I'm the same person I was when I was a kid. Everyone's like, 'Of course you are,' but I'm like, 'No, seriously.' I liked 'ThunderCats' when I was a kid; I call myself Thundercat now.
Even if you didn't want to have anything to do with the politics, you have to.
Songs being nine to 10 minutes long? Everyone is scared to to do it.
When you put a top on something and try to bottle it, that's when it dies.
Creatively, I'm not one to advocate people knowing every little nuance about you sometimes.
It was actually working with Kendrick Lamar that pushed me further into the act of songwriting, specifically.
Money comes and goes. But when you look back on your career, you have be able to answer to yourself, 'Did I make the most of my time on earth?'
The church we grew up playing at was not one of those churches known for its music, but it was just this all-around energy that would be happening because, at the same time we'd be playing in church, we'd be playing in the city jazz band under Reggie Edwards.
My high school teacher, Reggie Andrews, was a huge factor in my learning my instrument. He didn't play bass, but it was the part where he gave me a knowledgeable perspective of what it was that I was doing.
I'm left-handed.
No other mammal is as deceitful as the human being.
Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.
'Mortal Kombat,' the first arcade one, that soundtrack sounds like a Chick Corea album.
Why do we think the '70s were so awesome? That 'freeness' of music was there.
I feel like music itself is inspirational enough. Especially with the Internet. Not to sound like a shut-in.
I love Drake's music.
I'm not Beyonce or Trey Songz or anything, so every now and again, I feel a little like, 'Are they listening to me, or am I just sounding crazy singing to myself?' I feel like that sometimes.
I've paid attention to guys growin' up like Richard Pryor or Paul Mooney. The message that they were sending with what they did was so much bigger than them.
When I invite people over to my apartment, they usually don't like it because the music I play confuses the crap out of them - I'm making people listen to the 'Final Fantasy' soundtrack, and they're like, 'Why is this happening? Let's just leave and find somebody who wants us to have fun and not teach us about something.'
The truth is hip hop has always complemented jazz and vice versa, but there's always been this communication barrier that exists based on music to lyrics.
If you can fart in front of somebody, you know that they love you.
I hate studios; I'll be honest with you. People get weird in the studio. I've had some great and terrible times with people. People's personalities come out in the worst way.
I appreciate my parents for everything they instilled in me and my brothers.
I listen to Kenny Loggins, like - I want to be Kenny Loggins.
I don't look at my instrument as having one specific role; I was raised to go as far as you can. But Raphael Saadiq hated my bass. He told me to throw it away. And playing in Snoop's band, there was a time when my bass was more annoying to everyone than helpful. They would get on my case: 'Can you make your bass sound like more of a bass?'
Related Authors
Ani DiFranco Quotes
American
Musician
Bob Dylan Quotes
American
Musician
Brian Eno Quotes
British
Musician
Bruce Springsteen Quotes
American
Musician
David Bowie Quotes
English
Musician
Drake Quotes
Canadian
Musician
Elton John Quotes
English
Musician
George Harrison Quotes
British
Musician
Henry Rollins Quotes
American
Musician
John Lennon Quotes
English
Musician
Madonna Ciccone Quotes
American
Musician
Moby Quotes
American
Musician
Nicki Minaj Quotes
American
Musician
Patti Smith Quotes
American
Musician
Thom Yorke Quotes
English
Musician
Tori Amos Quotes
American
Musician