Quotes About Music

When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things.

I play in a lot of empty rooms.

Love is the root of everything. Whatever you do you must do with love so I also sing with love and perform with love for the love of my audience.

Although it wasn't my era, Soul is the root of what I do.

You don't meet that many people that you can talk about Roots Manuva with, but that was my favorite in school, this record of his called 'Run Come Save Me.' When I first started writing lyrics, it came from that.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

I have a huge appreciation for music in general, but my roots are country.

I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.

The Roots are well-respected and considered vanguards in the music.

'Chitthi' is a song from my roots.

When you start a band like we did - we started with pretty pop-punk roots - the whole plan is to get out of the whole town and to make something of yourself.

But I don't really want to play with Axl Rose.

I would never have thought I would see Axl Rose, someone who was so important to rock 'n' roll.

The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't.

The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

I want to know exactly how the first few measures are going to go, and the rough shape of a movement or the whole piece and its essential character.

Sometimes a person comes into an audience after a rough day, and they want to hear something they know.

The women really seemed to like 'Rough Boy.'

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.

My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up.

My mother was a classic matriarchal figure. She'd sing round the house and always had music on.

I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.