Quotes About Music

There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done.

I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now.

The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow.

My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

Play a jungle record from 1993 to someone in 1989 and it would have sounded like something so new that it would have challenged them to rethink what music was, or could be.

I did a tour down South someplace, and it was an all-day festival, and there were about 2,000 people. It was pouring down rain, and I went to grab the mic, and I got electrocuted. I felt the electricity flow through my body.

If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time.

I never did albums fully at DFA; I always would go someplace else so I wasn't making a record in my office, basically.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

To sing is to express, to love is to hurt

Dancing is to music what a beloved wife is to her husband. Both of them are so in love, you can't separate them.

Love songs or poetry?Ambrose: Love songs–you get the best of both, poetry set to music.And you can't dance to poetry.

Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.

Hello, Mary.'It was like hearing a note of divine calm after a dissonant passage of music. My confusion died away.

Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics.

I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.

Johnny Colt is a character, and most people in Lynyrd Skynyrd are characters, so he fits in great with us. He's got an attitude, man, and I love it, and that's what we need.

I'm a big fan of Courtney Love. I love Hole and I love her acting and I love her attitude. I just hope I never meet her in a dark alley.

A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love.

'Yeezus, ' I really love it. I think the sound of it is cool.

I love being in the studio. Expressing myself that way is really cool.

Michael B. Jordan is actually cool. He's like the homie. I'm actually talking to him. He reached out to me a while ago and just showing love for the music after 'TRaPSOUL' dropped.

I love Christmas. I love the music... I love everything about Christmas. I'm a big fan.