Top 33 Masego Quotes

I smile too much to be in a gang. I don’t got that ‘hit somebody’ vibe.

The moment you’re not worried about adult problems and you get to just make music, then I’ve made it to some extent.

I thought I was cool until I left the country. I went to Tokyo, and I was like, man, why am I wearing these jorts?

If you’re really chosen for music, it just comes to you and you just let it pass through. That’s how I create.

I feel like it’s my responsibility to contribute to a good vibe in the world and to do what I can, when I can.

My father’s from Jamaica.

I started playing sax when I was fourteen because I’m like a real competitive person when it comes to winning girls attention. And there was this girl that I really wanted the attention of and I found out she really liked jazz.

I like how hip-hop is just shocking and fun.

I was joked by a lot of older musicians because I was playing saxophone over trap beats or future bounce beats, and it just wasn’t what you do. They were just like play some John Coltrane and get in the corner. But that’s just not how I work.

I remember I was a freshman in high school the first time I heard OutKast.

I think for the culture I gotta collaborate with Pharrell. He’s from my area, that’d be amazing – what he would pull out of creatively.

To be able to be at the level that I perform onstage, I have to embody everything I’ve made my music about. Which is me.

Women who care about your health is such a cool thing. Your homies won’t remind you to not eat gluten.

I like to produce music and put it out and hopefully it can help people through whatever crisis they have.

Gospel influences your soul. If you’ve had church in your background… it’s just a part of your musical DNA.

Everyone communicates with music in a different way. With some people, if there’s not sheet music, they’re not playing it.

Seeing Ed Sheeran make a beat from scratch when I was in college changed my life.

‘Black Love’ made my mama cry, so this is one of those song songs. When I hear it, it makes my heart do some things.

The West Coast really allows you to understand who you are. You come across so many talented people you have to look back at yourself and see what makes you unique.

Every time I have a conversation with a woman, I gleam something from it.

My mother had this huge binder of CDs from everyone she loved, like progressive gospel artists. You know, she loved like how Yolanda Adams was kind of R&B, but it was, like, still gospel.

I write about love so I can keep focused on the true goal: to be with my lady, lady and travel with her and have my li’l family unit.

Everything that I’m doing, it’s like a future jazz, future trap house movement.

With ‘Pink Polo,’ I wanted something I could listen to when I was doing different activities during the summer and also bring a message in it.

It’s really easy to hide in metaphor or hide in a solo or instrumentation, but when you’re saying explicitly this is how I feel it’s a bit different – it makes you a more vulnerable person.

I remember my first trip to Toronto. There was this street musician playing an instrument I’ve never seen before – like, he had a hang drum on the left side and this random bagpipe, bodhran stick type of thing. It was the craziest thing ever! So I sampled it for a beat.

I travel more than anybody I know.

I listened to gospel music because that was just our culture, you know? My parents are pastors.

I was about to leave L.A. because I didn’t find enough soul in the musicians. Back in Virginia, it was just leaking soul everywhere.

There’s not a lot of thinking in my music. I freestyle a lot of things and organize it later, and then it becomes a song.

I don’t want to Kanye it, but I listen to myself a lot.

I’ve always loved fashion, but when you’re broke, you’re wearing whatever your dad gave you.

I do old man things by default, just stay in the hotel room, eat oatmeal, and drink tea.