Music can elevate man to new heights. Especially elevator music.

I object to background music no matter how good it is. Composers want people to listen to their music, they don't want them doing something else while their music is on. I'd like to get the guy who sold all those big businessmen the idea of putting music in the elevators, for he was really clever. What on earth good does it do anybody to hear those four or eight bars while going up a few flights.

Escalators are the offspring of elevators and stairs. Love is the progeny of passion and admiration.

I met someone who lives in an elevator.

For me art and music especially consists of raising ourselves as high as possible above that which is.

All of us have the privilege of making music that helps and heals — to make music that makes people happier, stronger and kinder. Don't forget: music is God's voice.

The century of airplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

He's the kind of man who was born to rise and rise: a human elevator. (p.7)

You are the music while the music lasts.

For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.

I like to make music that you can use to motivate yourself, because I'm going to be singing that every single day on stage. I'm not trying to sing no curses in my life.

Alex Honnold, free solo climbing phenom: The Last of the Mohicans soundtrack Rolf Potts, author of Vagabonding and others: ambitones like The Zen Effect in the key of C for 30 minutes, made by Rolfe Kent, the composer of music for movies like Sideways, Wedding Crashers, and Legally Blonde Matt Mullenweg, lead developer of WordPress, CEO of Automattic: “Everyday” by A$AP Rocky and “One Dance” by Drake Amelia Boone, the world’s most successful female obstacle course racer: “Tonight Tonight” by the Smashing Pumpkins and “Keep Your Eyes Open” by NEEDTOBREATHE Chris Young, mathematician and experimental chef: Paul Oakenfold’s “Live at the Rojan in Shanghai,” Pete Tong’s Essential Mix Jason Silva, TV and YouTube philosopher: “Time” from the Inception soundtrack by Hans Zimmer Chris Sacca: “Harlem Shake” by Baauer and “Lift Off” by Jay Z and Kanye West, featuring Beyoncé. “I can bang through an amazing amount of email with the Harlem Shake going on in the background.” Tim Ferriss: Currently I’m listening to “Circulation” by Beats Antique and “Black Out the Sun” by Sevendust, depending on whether I need flow or a jumpstart.

What ever sound that comes to me in the studio, that’s what comes out be it highlife, Afro beat, or Afro-pop.

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.