Quotes About Music

See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.

I wrote 'Show Me the Way' in the morning and wrote 'Baby, I Love Your Way' in the afternoon of the same day. I've been trying to figure out what I ate for breakfast that morning ever since!

I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.

I can say 100% that Westlife is not breaking up.

It's good to see your songs breaking the barriers of language.

I really got into Three Doors Down - that's the sound that was out when I was 12 or 13. I really loved Breaking Benjamin and bands like that.

I had love for Breakout; I had love for Bambaataa. I had love for Kool Herc.

I feel like my breakout moment had to have been when I dropped 'Drip Season 3.' I feel like it was just a real good body of music.

There's nothing like sitting down and playing music with somebody. It breaks down all the barriers in life.

We've had lots of breaks, especially over the last 10 years, so to still be getting together and to be able to get on stage and play together is a big deal.

I think any great song is difficult to write, in some aspect. It's just difficult to make somebody feel something. That is the main goal. How do you make somebody want to get up and dance? How do you make somebody feel okay after their breakup?

'Night Shift' is the only breakup song I've ever written.

I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.

The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.

You really have to play with the space in a riff so it can be allowed to breathe.

I breathe music... The acting is a job, but music is life. You need a job to live.

It's very important every day that I get up and breathe, and I can say the word 'Slipknot,' and I still have friends that I do it with.

I'm starting to develop my practice, learning how to come home after a really long day of shooting and letting myself breathe. I'm drawing and painting and listening to my music and keeping those things separate.

I just think it's good to have a big, living, breathing piece of music that's not just songs.

I don't remember ever not singing. It's just as natural as breathing for me.

It seems, in many ways, I am a living, breathing country song, and I know what I sing.

Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.

I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.