Quotes About Music

I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't have to.

Singing is something I do every day - not every other month. When I touch the mic, the same thing happens every time.

Earlier I had been in New York, which was my first time to New York, and I got booked in the Baby Grand up in Harlem there. I was booked there for a week; they kept me there for about a month. That's where Doc Pomus and myself became very close friends and start running together around town and what not.

I go to concerts about once a month.

I'm not a person you can figure out in one month. And you can't listen to one song and say, 'That's who he is.'

Every year that I go out on tour, I think about all the craziest ideas that would be great to go out with, and I think, 'I should see if Jeff Beck wants to join my band for a month or something.'

I'm only at home for, like, a month when I'm doing an album - at the most.

My first album was completed in three months.

I would spend about eight months on a song, leaving it alone and going back to it later on. I just kept layering things on, building them up in to epic songs. I let the songs evolve - it's really daunting.

We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.

So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.

GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other.

Anybody who has ever played in bars has played 'Keep Your Hands to Yourself.' It's a monumental piece of rock & roll. It makes you feel exactly like rock & roll is supposed to make you feel.

The Beatles never got through to all ages, nor did Elvis Presley, or any of the other monuments of mediocrity that we've had.

I love music. I love creating, so I just get inspired with whatever mood I'm in. Whatever the story dictates, that's where my mind goes.

I am a method actor because I listen to a sad song when I have to act in a sad scene. That way, I try to get into the mood.

I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.

I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun.

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

We've always known that music is good for improving your mood.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Whenever I make music, I just make it depending on however I feel at that moment and what I'm getting inspiration from, so it depends - whatever, it's just my mood.

I listen to music to try and focus or concentrate on emotional characters, which is quite common among actors. It might seem cheesy, but I particularly listen to Coldplay because I'm moved by their lyrics. But any music can help depending on the character and their mood.

The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood.