Quotes About Music

I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.

I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.

I feel like pop stars can't be rock stars anymore because they have to be role models, and it takes the fun out of it for us, because we just want to have fun with art.

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?

We're going out to play all the places where people might want to see us, because next time we might not just think about hitting every market or how we can make the most money.

I've been listening to a lot of John Coltrane. I don't know if that would or wouldn't surprise anybody. I go through different phases - sometimes I want to listen to music that's just pummeling.

My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love - whether it's shallow or deep or whatever. I want to do things that make people love me.

I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.

I dont know whos left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, weve got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it till nobody shows up to see it anymore.

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

At some point I decided I didn't want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Halen and I didn't really like Van Halen.

I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get from music than you get from that record.

I really think that Van Halen has two choices if they want to continue. And maybe they don't want to continue, because they don't seem to do much.

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.

My goals are to continue acting and also to produce some independent films in the next few years. Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.

Sometimes you just want to write a party song.

My goal is to appeal to as many people as I can. I'm not looking to leave country, but I do want to have more international success.

Michael Jackson is everywhere. I can't not listen to what we did because it's everywhere. I listen to it all the time whether I want to or not.

Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.

When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.