Quotes About Author

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.

I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour.

Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.

I feel like the Church should have the most amazing entertainment and the best music, because we know the author and the source of music and entertainment, which is our Father.

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

Ray and I do not draw salaries. Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.