Quotes About Music

Making a record's really hard. You deal with the money stuff - you never have the budget you need. You're working with so many egos.

We're doing everything we can to help bands from Buffalo.

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.

If I wasn't doing music, I might have been a builder.

Money wasn't important to me. Once I discovered music, I was quite happy to live as a bum. As long as I had my music and my band, I was happy.

I always struggle to get Aussies on stuff if I'm just being honest. I've asked heaps of Aussies to do duets and it's always just a pain in the bum and I just don't bother any more.

Music always gets bumped until I have some time to get around to it.

I had a whole bunch of bad country songs, so I put 'em all on an album.

We don't ever want to be this political band. We're just a bunch of dudes.

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting.

I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.

I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.

I had to burn all of my non-Christian records.

Music should be fun. If it's not fun, then you're going to get burned out; you're not going to give the best show.

I was a product of the relationships with my family, the environment I grew up in; all those things I kind of put on the back burner when I got into music, and my life all changed dramatically.

Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.

People think I can burst into song any time of the day, it's crazy.

It was a dream of Bob Marley and it is a dream of the family to bury him in Ethiopia.

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

I listen to music on the bus or in the car on the way to a game.

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.

There's always a party in my bus.