Quotes About Music

We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

There's only so many things to sing about, so what's going to make a song appeal to you more than someone else's is just a unique way of saying the same thing.

Honestly, 'Side A' is supposed to be a project just from my heart and whatever is happening in my heart at the time, and I want 'Side B' to also fit that same thing.

I sometimes buy albums that I don't like now, but that I know I will like. Coming out was the same thing. In high school, I thought, 'I know I'm going to have to deal with this, but I'm not confident enough now.' But when I finally did, my whole life changed.

I listen to the same things that a lot of my fans do, and I grew up in much the same way they're growing up.

I don't sample. I'm not like one of these guys who concoct some beat on my sampler and just turns it in.

I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work.

I don't do that much sampling. I create all my own sounds.

I love sampling, and RZA loves sampling, too.

I used to hate sampling, but it was basically because everyone was getting paid but us. But when they began to do the legislation and get it right, I realized that the kids just did something that, if maybe we were smart enough, we would have done it as well.

I think if I wanted to get to a point where I could actually grow in my music, I had to almost step away from sampling so much and start making the kind of music that people wanted to sample.

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

I sang 'Your Song' by Elton John, and Silva Screen Records were watching. They got in touch with my agent then had the idea of the Christmas album.

Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.

I started singing when I was a little kid. I was about nine when we had a group with my four brothers. We sang spirituals. The old regular thing.

I wish I sang better.

I only sang bhajans from 4 to 16 years.

I loved the feeling I got when I sang. I loved the feeling that it gave to people when I sang.

I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.

I just sang at first - I didn't ever play guitar before The Kills.

I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.