Music Quotes
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When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
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I certainly know that on our first tour of America in 1968, David Crosby came to see us backstage at the Fillmore East in New York, and I was very pleased to meet him from Buffalo Springfield and that kind of stuff. He didn't ask me anything about the music, but he said, 'Where'd you get your clothes, man?'
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I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.
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If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
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My music lives because of real players.
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I should get a weekend show where all I do is play country music.
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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To be a legend, we have to make a lot of right moves and great music.
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Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.
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People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.
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Wow, this is so amazing. I thank God. This is crazy because this is hip-hop music.
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Music really transcends languages, and it means so much.
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Country music was a part of my life. Now it isn't. We had a good relationship, really, but we wanted each other at arm's length. The people in Nashville didn't want to be responsible for my looks or my actions. But they sure did like the listeners I brought.
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I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.
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Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
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Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.
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I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
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I want to make sure that I make music that lasts. I've been experimenting. I've been writing.
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I was on a path that could've really led to disaster, and the one thing for me that really kept me focused and gave me something to believe in and a sense of self-worth and a discipline was music.
