Quotes About Music

I love bands like the Arctic Monkeys and The Smiths, and I'm working on my own music.

I love the Arctic Monkeys!

That's a win for me, for people to be able to say, 'Faith, fatherhood, monogamy exists in hip-hop.'

The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

As much as I love doing music, it can get monotonous sometimes.

Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.

I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

When I was 12 years old I discovered Bill Monroe and my dad got me a mandolin.

The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

You have to be very strong to play my music. The drummer has to be in great shape. Same with the guitarist. You have to be a monster to play with Chubby!

You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take over from there. The song becomes its own monster.

There's not many crazy guitar instrumentalists out there that put on a crazy monster show.

I remember years ago hearing a top band talking about a song of theirs that was a monster hit and they were really dissing it, saying that they hoped they'd never have to play it again. I thought: 'That's not right. If people love a song, play it.'

We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.

The Monsters & Strangerz, I love them so much.

When I saw Kiss, and it was monsters with guitars, I thought this was the greatest thing that ever happened.

A lot of people do records, and they get hit records, but we were blessed with a lot of monsters. 'Oh Carolina' was a very monstrous record in 1993; so was 'Boombastic,' 'Angel' and 'It Wasn't Me.'

I'm a real-life 'Hannah Montana.'

I grew up listening to Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, guys with blues backgrounds.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.

We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things.