Quotes About Music

I don't think there's any danger of me playing Indian music. However, I did a song of George Harrison's 'Beware of Darkness' that was kind of like that. That was an illusion. I was playing that on a thumbtack piano, and Jim Gordon was playing tablas. He's an amazing player. That was as close to India as I ever got.

A friend of mine called and said they're interested in having you do a song for the new Pokemon. All my kids are grown up, so I'd heard of it, but I didn't really know what it was.

As for song recordings - well, that's something that just happens. I've been working with music directors like Harris Jeyaraj sir, A. R. Rahman sir, and the experience is great.

What song have you played 10,000 times? It's probably not something basic. It's probably a song that validates your experience on Earth.

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.

'My Name Is' by Eminem was a song that changed my life.

I always knew 'My Dawg' would be a hit, but I didn't even know what a hit was. When I made the song I knew it sounded hard.

I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.

A song is a burden that you carry happily.

When people ask me for playlists, I always put in 'Moonlight Sonata' because it is my favorite song. I play it all the time.

I'm not someone who can dance to a song I don't like.

The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

Listening to the radio makes you hate every song.

The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

I knew 'Ojuelegba' was a good song, but I didn't expect it to blow up the way that it did.

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

I don't even want a song to ramp up the drama, you know? I want music to be there only when it really enhances the feeling.

It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.