Quotes About Music

I left the door open so I could hear the music, grabbed my clippers and went out to play in the garden~~the best place to count my many blessings. And then I though, if I can't get through one door, I'll try the next, or I'll go through a window. Something good is going to happen. Red-Letter days are not provided by others....

that opera, in fact, is the highest redemption of longing. That it's her own anguish, salvaged by music.

I get so frustrated with all these so-called singer-songwriters coming out and they don't write!

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

One of the most important times in my life was the first time that I remember seeing my daddy get onstage and play music with a bunch of guys. All of them playing something different at the same time and all becoming one, and me soaking that in at 5 years old and going, 'That's my daddy up there, and he's a part of something.'

There are some artists who are doing some good music, especially those who are independent, but with labels, I say that I get the feeling of selling soaps.

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.

We never could have foreseen the success of 'Babel.' It's not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know.

I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.

I love a beautiful, soaring, singable melody. But what really draws me to a song, at the end of the day, is the words.

I've always employed a melodic style with my leads, placing strong emphasis on infusing romantic sensibilities into what I'm trying to say. Those big, epic melodies come from influences like Pink Floyd, Journey, Marillion... bands that have these guitar parts that are just soaring!

I really enjoyed playing drums on 'Born Again.' It was a good feeling about being alive. There was a good energy there about being sober.

Three of my heroes that have gotten clean and sober that I got to ask for advice were Alice Cooper, Nikki Sixx and Zakk Wylde.

When I was in the rock band, I got to do whatever I wanted. I had people paying my bills, and I didn't have time to grow up. When I got sober and left Korn, it was like, 'OK, now I can mature.'

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

I was totally sober in college and really, really focused. I just took the time when other people might be partying and just made music and played at the party instead.

When Patrick finally broke his silence with 2008's 'Anthems For the Damned' - the first Filter album that he recorded sober - fans were decidedly lukewarm.

When I started doing music full time, I figured out my job wasn't something I needed to be completely sober for.

I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33.

That's something that I never thought I would have in a million years. We've done Gold before with 'Used To Love You Sober,' which I thought was awesome, but you don't realize once you get to Platinum, and you see the number difference between 500,000 and a million.

I do 5Rhythms a lot. It's like dance meditation. You go into a room and there's a DJ and it's in the evening, completely sober, and it's spiritual. You can just move and dance however you want.

I used to say, if Jim were alive today he'd never be clean and sober but I'm changing that answer because Eminem - angry, creative, just like Jim; a real talent - and Clapton, of course. It's a different time so he would have learned something, I think, but I don't protect what he did.