Quotes About Music

To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.

But if I was still trying to be in Guns N' Roses while I wasn't in the band... I wouldn't want to maintain an image like that.

If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because I want to write a song, I want to write a song that the world can sing and will always sing.

For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again.

I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Obviously I can't rely on my group, but I don't want to rely on a laptop just to play back some backing tracks, that's not the way I do things really.

As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.

My mom said, "What I want is a happy kid, not a rich kid. That's what I root for." She saw how much joy I got from playing music, and those years were leaner than lean!

I feel like I've met most people I look up to musically. I just want to meet Chef.

If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.

I looked at Justin, and I was like: "Do you want me to go onstage for you?"

Until I'm over the hill and over the hump; I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want.

There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.

I would like to sit and and write some acoustic stuff. That's what I want to do. It means creatively, that's what I want so I need to do that for myself and then I'll see.

Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.

If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.

People just want honest music.

I let my music take me where my heart wants to go.

My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.

How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?

For me, there is a strong hypnotic power in noise-music, and that's something I don't want to leave out of my music anymore.