Quotes About Music

I can't wait to see someone else from Louisville make a hit song 'cos that'd be dope. I can only imagine how J Cole would feel if somebody just came out of Fayetteville and started booming with some crazy records.

The LUMS Olympiad back 10 years ago gave me a boost to sing songs where I first met with amazing Uzair Jaswal who did not sing cover songs but his original songs.

When I put out 'Toot It and Boot It,' did anything sound like that?

I lean traditional, but 'Head Over Boots,' it's pretty country.

I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.

'Kolaveri' is one song that people feel connected to. While I am bored of the song, it seems people aren't. I really can't say what worked. But I can definitely say that the song made me what I am today.

I try to challenge my ears. I get bored easily.

I literally have a song about how bored I was and it's actually a really cool song that's interesting because I created something out of nothing.

I get easily bored, so it's better for me to be a session player rather than playing the same music over and over again.

I love music and I would hate to get bored with it.

I love playing live and I love to travel. I don't get bored by either one.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

I don't want to sing boring pop songs - I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.

I can tell when my brother's been borrowing my CDs.

I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I tried to make it as a musician. I lived in a big squalid house full of dudes outside of Boston. We were all musicians. We built this studio in the basement and played there all hours of the day.

Whenever Boston comes on, I play air guitar.

My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old.

Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.

You should create music which comes from within and not bother about anything else.

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

People think unless you have loops and electronics and so on, you must be in your 50s. I quite like a lot of things that have loops and sequencers, but I couldn't really be bothered.

A lot of electronic musicians probably wouldn't be bothered making an album, which strategically makes total sense.

I've played piano since I was probably six or seven, but I stopped when I was about 13, and I couldn't be bothered to do the exams or learn my scales.

I used to just say I'm in sales. I couldn't be bothered telling people I do music. But now if I don't say I do music, I'm lying. Because that's my only job.