Quotes About Music

When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

Hearing 'This Is How It Feels' on the radio was an amazing feeling, like starting again. But I believe that, in the end, my name will be bigger then the Verve because of all those great tunes and the power of what I stand for.

With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.

I used to sing Chaka Khan tunes in the car with my mum when I was eight years old.

The only thing that makes sense to me that I've learnt over the years is knocking tunes together.

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.

When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.

There are a million good tunes.

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

I had this knack of writing opening lines to my tunes. This helped in making an instant impression.

It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.

The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.

I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues.

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.

There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.

I like minor tunes.