Music Quotes
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I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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I've never played it safe on my own music.
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If I hadn't had that decade in the music industry and, perhaps more importantly, time to reach the point of being sick and disgusted with it, I wouldn't have written 'Kill Your Friends.' That book gave me my whole career.
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Me in my music and onstage – that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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Standing as a witness in all things means all things - big things, little things, in all conversations, in jokes, in games played and books read and music listened to, in causes supported, in service rendered, in clothes worn, in friends made.
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Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
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I'm in the position where I don't have to make commercial music to feed myself, so I have the luxury of being more experimental, if that's what I choose to do. I guess I've earned the right by being in the business for a while and paying the dues and taking the lumps.
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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.
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Digital downloading of music has affected us all in adverse ways.
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
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My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.
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People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'
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Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.
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I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.
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If you don't like music, there is something wrong with your face
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And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
