Music Quotes
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Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt'. I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.
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Together, we can nurture the talent of the future and bring the empowering force of music and the arts to a new generation.
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When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead.
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One of the things that the Grateful Dead did, way back when, was we spent a lot of time just turning each other on to music. If somebody was listening to something that really caught their ear, they'd make sure that everybody else in the band heard it, and that came home for us in innumerable ways.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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My goal is to get my music out to as many people as possible. That a song of mine is being played on the radio so far away from home really, really pushes me. It's everything I've dreamed of.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.
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Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
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Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear.
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Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.
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I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
