Quotes About Music

I did 'The Sound of Music.' That was my first musical.

I was obsessed with 'The Sound of Music.' I always feel nostalgic watching it.

People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'

Guys like Future and me, we help create and shape the sound of music - not just Atlanta music, but music all over. If you really pay attention to the music being made, a lot of that is very heavily influenced by the stuff that we created. I listen to so many songs that's like, 'Damn, this sounds like my music!'

Few people remember that I played a nun in the Broadway musical, 'the Sound of Music.'

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.

I like Journey, Bad Company, Soundgarden and Aerosmith.

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

I'll never forget getting my first Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chain records, and hearing that wonderful, beautiful darkness. And the rhythmic intensity, that's what attracted me more than anything else.

You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden.

I liked Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Melvins. I didn't really care much for Pearl Jam.

There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It's not who we were.

In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

Whenever anyone sends me a link to a band, saying, 'These guys sound exactly like Soundgarden,' it's always some super simple sludge riff with a singer that sings high and screechy. And it's really awful.

The coolest thing for me to do was listen to Pearl Jam's 'Ten,' Nirvana's 'Nevermind,' or Soundgarden and play along to it and think about how awesome it would be to be in one of those bands and be up on stage. When I'd close my eyes at 13 and dream of being in Pearl Jam or one of those bands, it was exactly like how it is now with the band I'm in.

We wrote many a Rage song where we'd use Soundgarden as a template.

Soundgarden are good friends of mine.

No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

When I'm in a bad mood, I feel better listening to someone else who sounds like they're in a bad mood. That was especially true when I was a kid, and I was mad at my mom or dad for whatever reason.

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.