Music Quotes
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I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.
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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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I had a little radio, and I listened to music in my bedroom when I was supposed to be sleeping. I was probably 6 or 7 years old, and I loved the DJs who would come on and talk about the artists and the songs they were singing, and they gave away prizes. I was like, 'This is a cool job!'
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Some nightlife places, people aren't there for the music, and it's depressing. I'm not just a club DJ; I am a producer, and I'll only DJ when the crowd is there to enjoy the music.
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I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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When AM switched to FM, the focus went from tunesmiths to technicians, ... We felt the music became less fun than what we grew up with. And we sensed a void.
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Everybody has their favorite sad songs. That's part of what I love so much about country music. Country music is never afraid to go with a sad song.
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I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.
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Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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There's such a lack of sex in music.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.
