Quotes About Music

I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song,' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper.

Eric Clapton was such a great player. He sounds like he's Freddie King or someone like that. He plays the roots of blues and Delta blues. He really affected me with the way that he plays, because he never really plays that many notes.

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

A lot of people at the highest level, I never listened to. It was hard for me to listen to a whole lot of stuff. It didn't get there for me. Al Green, who's maybe my favorite male singer - to me, Al Green sounds like a saxophone player.

Los Angeles is great for partying and also for its sights and sounds.

It is true that if you hear our music described, it sounds unappealing. I used to laugh and agree with people when they said it didn't make any sense.

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.

Sounds always fascinated me.

Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time.

My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.

It's not easy to sound like Dilla, but you can make beats like Dilla with your computer, so that's why everybody sounds like Dilla.

I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds.

When you listen deeply to a song, you find all the little sounds they use and subconsciously learn how to produce and mix.

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

Whatever sounds best to the ear, to the whole team of people who are producing the song, is what works eventually.

Pretty much all the programming on our CDs is done by me personally, so I've kind of been able to have complete control of what sounds I'm looking for to complete a song.

I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

I focus all the way on the club. That's why my music sounds the way it does, with the 808, heavy kicks. Every aspect of it is about the club, so I don't really care about the person who's listening on an iPod.

It was Skrillex who got me into dubstep. He made it melodic - not just a bunch of crazy sounds.

My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.