Music Quotes
-
My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.
-
I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.
-
With 'Torches,' I wanted to make a great pop record; I wanted every song to be exciting, not to have too much space, no long pieces of music without vocals. I kind of wanted to write the perfect pop album.
-
My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
-
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.
-
I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.
-
I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.
-
To keep creating you have to be about change.
-
I've tried to make music that's more universal, but for me, it's most successful emotionally when it's most specific to what I'm going through.
-
Pop just didn't have enough substance for me. All this nyah-nyah-nyah, you know, 'Paper Tiger' and 'Hold the Ladder, James' and 'Crimson and Clover.' That wasn't music!
-
The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.
-
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
-
What Jennifer Lopez puts out, it's not Latin music.
-
We're a band that's never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it's allowed us to be more open and confrontational in our music.
-
I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'
-
It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It’s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I’ve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about.
-
I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.
-
You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
-
The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
-
As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way.
-
I think when I do things outside of music, I am always thinking of different things that are eventually one way or another going to come back to my music. I have to make sure it is all cohesive, as that's important to me as an artist and a person.
-
The jazz always seems to automatically come out, because it was from my jazz days that I learned that spark. And the nice thing with my band and this repertoire, which is a complete joy, is that we go beyond just playing chords and melody. It is music that can stretch out.
-
We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
-
I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.
