Iwan Rheon Quotes
I just want my music to be put out there, not shoved in peoples faces. I want to keep it relaxed.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
-
Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
-
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
-
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
-
Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
-
I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.
-
Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
-
I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.
-
I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
-
It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
-
In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
-
One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in – I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.
-
The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.
-
My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don't regret it.
-
When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
-
I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
-
The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
-
'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.
-
I haven't had the most thrilling lifestyle. I was a pretty good dresser, but I would have a pretty boring 'Behind the Music.'
-
I don't watch ESPN, don't listen to the radio. I just go home and deal with my family.
-
Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.
-
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
-
I just want my music to be put out there, not shoved in peoples faces. I want to keep it relaxed.
