Music Quotes
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The music industry is more singles-driven, and the attention span of culture becomes shorter and shorter, but we still grew up in the era where buying an album, looking at the artwork, putting it on and listening to it top to bottom, those were the experiences that really changed our lives. That's what we aim to make.
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Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.
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When I was a kid, I liked the newer music that was coming out. I have never really felt confined by any style of music. I would play in bands that were soul bands or that played standards - any kind of music that I enjoyed playing.
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Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.
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I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long.
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I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.
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Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.
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There's definitely a push and a pull to 'legitimize' electronic music live by playing the same way that a band would play.
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If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.
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You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.
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I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.
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The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.
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I mean, Lady Gaga is trying to be a freak or whatever but that quality of being very meaningly and heartfelt, but also having a sense of humor about it, bands don't do that anymore. Lady Gaga's songs are cheesy. The Beatles weren't cheesy. That's the hardest thing with music: to not be cheesy, but also be meaningful. That's the goal, I think.
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I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
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Most people involved in the music business, and it's probably not just the music business... aren't necessarily people that I like.
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Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.
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I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.
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The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.
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Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.
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I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.
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Love is music, and music is home.
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I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.
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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.
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I really didn't study any music. I just picked it up real quick.
