Music Quotes
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I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only.
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I think what makes his story unique from others is there is not really one piece of American pop music you hear today that does not have some James Brown in it.
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I wouldn't have met my wife (Rose Lane) if it wasn't for him. He gave my daughter Amy a job in the '90s. He touched me personally. He had boundless energy and a deep, deep passion for music.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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I love pop music. I've tried to always be honest about that.
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I've been through the music industry and with the Internet the music industry is not what it used to be.
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Wherever I go with my life, even the good times and the bad parts, only two people are with me: God and my music.
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The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue.
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In my 30s, I became more open to music other than country or bluegrass.
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Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam, Garth Brooks, but add a little Ellington, Basie and Coltrane to your life as well.
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A lot of Appalachian music has a certain haunted, foggy feel to it; a certain sinister quality. And that transcends who is singing it. I think it's good if an artist can represent some kind of culture that they either aspire to ignite, or that they themselves experience.
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I don't have a journal; I write music.
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It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.
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Music is a thing where, the more vocabulary you gather, the more you can express yourself.
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I think I'm a music fan before anything else.
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You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.
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I wouldn't say music is my passion, or my calling, or anything like that. I mean, I don't really believe in that kind of stuff. Life is a series of chance happenings, so I just fell into it.
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The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.
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The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.
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Music is for every single person that walks the planet.
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We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn't want to do it, just to do it. We didn't want to do it for money, I guess, is the thing that would have just bummed me out so much.
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I didn't know anything about fashion, growing up in Orange County. I just knew about it through music, how ska bands dressed.
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You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.
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I did not like that name "world music" in the beginning. I think that African music must get more respect than to be put in a ghetto like that. We have something to give to others. When you look to how African music is built, when you understand this kind of music, you can understand that a lot of all this modern music that you are hearing in the world has similarities to African music. It's like the origin of a lot of kinds of music.
