Quotes About Music

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.

Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.

I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds.

I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

When you sing, you put on a persona. I hide behind that person on stage. You can feel like death, but you have to put it on. The audience wants to see someone smiley.

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

If a psychiatrist would analyze [the lyrics], I'm sure they'd come up with something interesting. I really don't try to twist them. I don't want to slash things.

I'm usually writing or producing for other people. I'm like Burger King most of the time; I let people have it their way like "You want it like this? I'll give it to you like this."

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

Want me to Stevie Wonder my way to the bathroom?

I want you to play me like a cello.

I think that there was a fad where everyone said, "I want you to create a signature step for my artist." The thing is, for me, music creates the step. The artist commands the step, you know?

This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

You want me to describe Elvis, wow!

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.

Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that.

What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.

You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.

You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.