Music Quotes
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Music is organized sound.
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I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
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Music's something that I really wasn't pushed into, it was something I just kinda chose, I just kept pushing myself, and it was all down to me.
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I wasn't sure what would happen to me after 'The Voice.' I was just excited to make music.
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There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.
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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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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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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 think of the pop music that I've made in the past and hear on the radio as candy bars. And I was really good at making candy bars.
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Why stick to just prose or just music or just newspaper or just video? Why not create new models for information that combine elements of them all?
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I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.
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All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.
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The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
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I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
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However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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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.
