Quotes About Music

I guess you can say I 'do the Twist.' I like playful dance moves that aren't too serious.

I just tell you what I feel. I go out there, you put a quarter on my tongue, twist my ear and I'll spit out some hit for you.

There's a quality to the sound of a trumpet that you can really twist for any kind of sound and mood that you want to create.

I've always wanted to dress like this, and I've always wanted my music to have the edge, the twist to it.

An Emraan Hashmi film has come to guarantee certain ingredients: An intense, grey central character, a beautiful girl - if he gets lucky, then two - couple of kisses, a few bold scenes, fabulous music and a climatic twist.

If you want to give a twist to a song, I have no problem, but don't forget to mention the original composer's name.

I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.

What I loved with Billie Holiday is she had a good way of parlaying the sorrow with a positive musical twist.

'Vol. 3' is the most pleasing of our albums to me. And I want to keep making albums that are different from each other. And you can bet all our albums will have that twist that only Slipknot can do.

With a song called 'House Party,' you'd expect it to be more about a big party, not as much about a relationship, so we tried to put a little bit of a unique twist on it.

I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.

I'm big fan of soulful music - classic rock with a folk-ish twist.

I can write a happy song, but there has to be some sort of twist. Otherwise it feels a bit cheesy.

I'm trying to play tunes in a new way, using all the same scales, harmonies, structures, but twist everything a little bit so that it comes out sounding different.

I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase... So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work.

I can't see a Twisted Sister on the country charts.

My first records were KISS's 'Love Gun,' Twisted Sister's 'Stay Hungry,' and Motley Crue's 'Shout at the Devil.' That had immense influence on me.

It's been an incredible experience, playing with Twisted Sister, Stone Sour, Avenged Sevenfold, jamming with Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, and the list goes on and on and on.

What started it all was the Kanye album, 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.' We started listening to that and just fell in love with it, fell in love with his production style.

The form of the blues helps us express our joys, our fears, our - anything you want to express. And it helps you get it out instead of it spiraling inward, and you're getting twisted up and exploding. So it's a bit of salvation.

I am going through a Neil Young phase. I also listen to a lot of alternative country, a band called Smog and Bonnie Prince Billy, which is very dark and twisted.

My favorite Kanye album is 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.'

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.

It's so refreshing to just play straight-ahead music with lots of twists.