Quotes About Music

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.

I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

I'm more a percussion instrument than a dancer.

I played the drums. I basically started off in drum line. So it was just straight percussion. Then I got into the drum set. I was in the jazz band and then all through high school I was in orchestra.

When I'm playing, I play what I want, but I make sure that the crowd is going to love it at the same time. It's like a balancing act, a mix of two, a perfect circle... if you do it right.

I just wanted to do my own albums where nobody could tell me what to do. Roc Nation was the perfect fit because I could do what I wanted to do.

I wish I could have been in the control room at Capitol Studio A listening to the playback of 'Wichita Lineman' the first time it came into the atmosphere. It must have been a perfect moment in time.

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.

I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.

I really like Beyonce. She's a perfectionist who works really hard on each and every performance.

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.

You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.

I am perfectly aware of my position in commercial music.

I mean, musical theater really informed so much of my life. It just so perfectly brings order to chaos, which is why we love theater.

I love my band - they are the best out there, and I wouldn't want to perform with anyone else.

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.