Quotes About Music

You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club.

I really wanted to take 'Dilbar' to Africa and the Middle East in Arabic because it was also a perfect way to launch myself.

When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.

I've only ever been in one band in my life, and that was in middle school.

In middle school, I saw Chris Brown live, and I thought, 'I can do that.' And these girls are screaming for him.

I was constantly involved in music and theatre all through middle school and high school.

I was really into emo and scene culture in middle school.

I had a band when I was in middle school, but I was the drummer. I kind of thought if I was going to be in a band, I'd be the drummer. I'm innately drawn to rhythm. But we didn't have any shows. We just jammed in our parents' basement.

I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.

I hate when bands make beige, middle-of-the-road music. I guess you can say 'Lonerism' is the war on beige music.

How can you have a rock n' roll circus without a midget?

One of my favorite albums that I've been listening to lately is 'Midnight Machines' by Lights.

A lot of times I like to listen to albums between midnight and three in the morning - it's my favorite listening hours. I get to sit at my bed, put my headphones on and just let the music consume me.

We came out in the midst of the hippie hangover. All this mellow music.

I'd love to be able to take a 8-months off on the coast somewhere, like some of my musician friends, and create an album but instead I have to create what I do in the midst of chaos.

We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.

We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.

Mike Patton and Dave Lombardo - those guys are a good, heavy influence.

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

Mike Elizondo had an incredible array of guitars in the studio, but they were all right-handed.

Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin.

When I'm in the studio, I like to be in there by myself because if I'm in the mike room, and I look out and see people talking, or they're not nodding their head or rocking to the music, it makes me feel like it don't sound good, or I'll be scared to really open up vocally because I might mess up, and they might be in there laughing.