Quotes About Music

It's amazing what some people read into songs.

Some people, they do just go out there and rock, and it's perfect in that way, 'cause that's what's, I guess, natural to them.

The music I listen, the book I read, and the people I meet; these are some things that keeps me going.

Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.

I decided right away that whomever was going to advise me had to be fundamentally interested in music. This protected me from the skullduggery common to the music industry then and that still exists today. Of course, using this method meant that some things we didn't know and just had to learn how to do it together.

I wasn't fully aware of the things that Madlib did musically, but my manager put me up on game. I'm not gonna act like I was a Madlib head when I wasn't. I didn't understand a lot of it at first. But it opened my mind to some things, and it's me bringing that gangster element to things that he does. It's like a perfect marriage.

I sometimes think I should write a book. I've seen some things, you know, but it's all there in the songs.

'Black Love' made my mama cry, so this is one of those song songs. When I hear it, it makes my heart do some things.

Some things have never changed in India. Melody, for one. The sound has changed, the rhythm has changed, and lyrics have become more contemporary.

If you actually go back and listen to my first album, there are some things on there that are kind of rock 'n' roll.

It's really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you're in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

Every day, we hear that somebody got saved to our music from all over the world. The music reaches people. It can encourage them. I feel like I have to do it because there's somebody out there who needs to hear the gospel.

I've been blessed. Every few years, I'll connect with somebody and put out a record with somebody that keeps me relevant.

As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

Maybe someday, I'll just make, like, a complete on-demand record that everybody wants to hear. But that would be impossible and, also, I just changed my mind. I don't think I'll ever do that.

Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.

For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.

There are definitely times where I am listening to the radio, and I think, 'That would be awesome. I would love to sing that.' It's this weird karaoke fantasy that I might someday get to live out on the big screen.

CDs sound so much better than MP3s. I'm sure they'll come out with a better format someday.

Yo La Tengo were a major inspiration for me because they're one of the first bands that I got into on my own, separate from my parents, when I was in high school. I have all their albums. That's the place we'd like be in someday.

I am an Alanis Morissette fan. I think that she has a fantastic voice, and I would love to sing with her someday.