Quotes About Music

I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words!

That can definitely mess with your music - if you overthink. 'What's radio going to think?' or 'What are these people going to think?'

Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.

We need music that makes complete sense to us, and that's how 'Mess' came about.

I was a mess... It's like 'Rock Me Tonite' is an MBA course on how a video can go really wrong.

I would love to do a show at a Bon Jovi concert to get the people in that crowd. That's a good crowd to mess with.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.

When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd make a CD with all her favourite songs and a message that said, 'Will you marry me?' Shows you what a romantic I was. No one listens to CDs any more. It's all about iTunes.

I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

When you listen to my songs, you hear messages and real stories. That's what's setting me apart.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

You shouldn't listen to my music for political messages.

If you're really listening there are alot of hidden messages in my songs.

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

I messed around with the guitar from the age of about eight, but when I hit 13, it was the only thing I wanted from life.

The mentality always in reggaeton was, 'I'm the man.' I made that cool to say, 'I messed up. I'm not the best.'

I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

I never started learning instruments with the hope of having a career in it. It was more kind of I quite enjoy messing around and writing or playing with the family and stuff like that.

I just love being in the studio, and that's kind of what I do when I'm not on the road. I'm just in the studio messing with stuff, and I love playing all the instruments.