Quotes About Music

I love hip-hop. I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.

I go through phases where I'm not into jazz as much, and then I'll get heavy, heavy, heavy into it.

I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell.

I'm just writing less of my own music lately - I go in and out of phases a lot. Sometimes there are these accidents that just sort of happen, that are kind of waiting around the corner. I guess Modest Mouse was one of them.

One thing I love about Lady Gaga is I feel like her sound is always evolving and changing with her and her phases of life.

In the States, this type of jam-band phenomena has opened it up for groups to improvise, admittedly more in the groove area, as opposed to the straight-ahead jazz thing - which is good for me, as that's one part of where I'm at. It's been so great playing these gigs and seeing kids come out and the whole college scene.

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

Chickenfoot is phenomenal. I can't believe the music we're making.

Lady Gaga is phenomenal. From the first day I met her, she was lightning in a bottle.

I'd love to have Jack White up. I think he's just a phenomenal guitar player. I'd love to see him play up close because he's got a killer voice, and he's a great lead player, too. That would be exciting to me.

My favorite band is Yes. They are all phenomenal musicians, and yes, this means I'm subject to ridicule from co-workers and occasionally from my wife, three kids, and even our Labradoodle pup.

The people at Jazz at Lincoln Center are an amazing group and have done a phenomenal job teaching kids and audiences of all ages about jazz.

My father had a phenomenal knowledge of music; my mom's family were all musicians.

But I must tell you that dancing to 'Aapke Aa Jaane Se' from 'Khudgarz' was phenomenal.

K-pop itself is not just a music genre, but a whole cultural phenomenon.

The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociological phenomenon that lasted through the Beatles and even a bit through Fleetwood Mac.

I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing. I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had.

I knew from working with New Order that I enjoyed working with Phil Cunningham.

My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.

I listen to a lot of Phil Collins.

It frustrated me at college that all the acts in the Top 10 were like The Moody Blues and Phil Collins. It was like why did we get stuck with the last generation's music, why can't we have our own?

In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.