Quotes About Author

Grizzly bears eat people without the benefit of music.

To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until you stop.

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.

I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

I'm not a huge big fan of music video.

All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

What do you know about music, you're not a lawyer?

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

But I think I'm on track to do something even bigger. I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

I use all different kinds of techniques for all different types of music. The music dictates the style.

I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.