Music Quotes
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We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.
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Each artist attracts his own different set of fans. And G3 over the years has created it's own audience as well... they know it's something unusual and special that they're not going to get anywhere else ... young and old, both sexes, all come out. They all look at each other like, Wow, what are those people over there ? ... They're surprised at their own diversity.
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I never listen to music when I write.
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I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.
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I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.
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Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.
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Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.
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Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.
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I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music was so loud I couldn't stay.
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I love bluegrass music, I love acoustic music, and I try at the right times to push that a little bit.
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Music is just about having fun, being free, being yourself.
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I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
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Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers.
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Traveling all over the country and all over the world, I think you've got a lot of pop acts and a lot of rock acts that are making a point of traveling to different places and making people aware of their music and their shows and the whole deal and I think country music has always sort of stayed, for the most part, in the states.
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I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven't heard before. It's a very healthy thing to do. It's strange: unless you reload your iPods every couple of weeks, you're listening to and recycling the same music all of the time. I'm serious. Listen to your radio station.
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I write music when I'm free and for no particular project in mind.
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Depending on the time I get, I do my share of social networking, listen to music, or play a video game. I love watching movies in theatres.
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Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been a really fun and blessed ride.
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For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.
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When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.
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Part of me is afraid to let go of this other thing, which was so hugely successful. But on the other hand, I have to move ahead, or else my feet are stuck in the cement. I feel like I'm capable of writing other kinds of music, and I'm at a transitional time in my life.
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My mom is an elementary school music teacher, a pianist, and a singer, and my dad plays guitar - he's a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. My mom does musical theater, too. All of those influences were around.
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I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.
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Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.
