Quotes About Music

Are there a million people out there who would love a Joey Cook album? I think there probably are.

I think it's hilarious that you would give an endorsement deal to someone who you've heard their lyrics a million times and you thought it was cool. And then they said something a little messed up and you take the endorsement deal away.

You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.

I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

Chicago is definitely more of a country place now. The friends who I thought never in a million years would like country now are huge fans. I love that.

If you're in the music to move to Hollywood and be in 'People' magazine dating an actress or dating some Hollywood celebrity, are you into it for that side of it? Are you in it to be a millionaire? Or are you in it because you love it and you like playing music and you like going on tour?

When I was about 18, I started playing restaurants for £150 a night. I felt like a millionaire.

If you earned money listening to music, I'd be a millionaire.

I am very happy with 'Jai Ho' from 'Slumdog Millionaire' getting the Golden Globe. It means a lot for Indians and the music here.

Lata Mangeshkar is a living legend. She has enthralled millions of hearts all over the world with her music.

I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.

I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.

I can't tell you how much more important watching 'Hellraiser' is to my music than listening to a Milton Babbitt piece or something.

I would rather go back to when I started doing music in Ireland and it was all live. I mean you just don't mime.

Over the years, I've heard pop artists do some Christmas songs, and I haven't fully cared for them. They weren't the traditional Christmas music that I was raised on and love. Thinking of that, I wanted to make my songs mimic the classic Christmas songs.

I just started mimicking what I heard and singing along to it.

I love looking out at a sea of people. It's mind-blowing. But I also like playing clubs.

When I was in high school, the girls used to tell me I looked like Usher, so to be doing a song with Usher was mind-blowing.

Delhiites are mind-blowing. Their enthusiasm and fervour pumps me up to give my best shot. They value my music.

My basic grammar is in Indian classical music, Carnatic music, and Hindustani music, but I don't believe that that is the only form of music I will learn. I don't believe in that, because I am a very open minded person.

As far as One Direction goes, and Mindless Behavior and all the other bands, I'm all for it, and if there's ever an opportunity to work with them, that'd be great.

There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.

Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.

I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.