Quotes About Music

I'm a huge fan of Joni Mitchell, and I think her music has inspired me lyrically and guitar-wise.

As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.

Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.

Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

For someone like me, who has grown up with Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, it's hard not to invest a lot of myself in what I do.

I don't think words always lead to meaning, but the things you can create with them are still pretty amazing. I've been really into Joni Mitchell, for example, but I've also been into some studio stuff, like Bjork.

I was asked to be in Elton John's band, Joni Mitchell's band, and Miles Davis' band. I couldn't do it.

I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.

I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.

Every bar mitzvah I ever went to was, 'Here comes 'Oh, What a Night.'

I love Little Mix!

There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.

I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that mix is a lot of what has kept me going and kept people fired up about the music.

When you hear 'I Luv U,' that's me doing Three 6 Mafia. That actual track is a mix of 'What's Your Fantasy?' by Ludacris and 'Is That Yo Chick?' by Jay Z. That's my version of that track.

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.

There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.

Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.

I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!

We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high music - important music - and shallow music. And I think that's dangerous, because there's often a mix of both.

Britain is not just One Direction, Little Mix, and James Bay. There's Skepta killing it, there's Krept and Konan killing it.