Quotes About Music

I was about 18 when I started making music, making beats. My mindset was totally different.

What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset.

All the big loud housey songs came from the idea of 'I want to create the same song over and over again.' Except that I've created each one in a different location, or a different mindset.

I think anyone can actually sing. It's the mindset. Singing is imitation.

A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.

Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

The first CD I bought was Brandy and Monica's 'The Boy Is Mine.'

Honestly, I never felt like I wasn't an artist on my own. I always felt like the music I made was mine, whether it was part of a collaboration with people.

So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

I'm really excited about 'Mingle All the Way'. Obviously I love Christmas, I love Christmas music, and the idea of becoming part of someone's positive memories from Christmas because they watch the movie -- I think that's the greatest thing.

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

We don't dance because we can't dance. Our shows, production-wise, are always quite minimal. We always try and keep it more about us having fun and stay away from gimmicks.

Coming from 'Homework,' which was a really minimal album, 'Discovery' was much more difficult to perform on stage.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

I try to keep the theatrics to a minimum and let the music do the talking.

My father was a minister, and my mother was a music teacher.

Minneapolis, in general, has been there with me since the beginning. They made me feel important before I really even had a foundation. I think a lot of it has to do with it's such an intense music city in its own right.

People don't know major and minor chords; they know what they like. I feel the same way.

I guess I like minor chords better than major ones, in general.

I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.

My reading of serious books about serious music is seriously compromised by the way that I can't understand any musical theory. Any mentions of D major or C minor are meaningless to me.