Quotes About Music

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

It was different to what everyone else was doing. It was very hard to pigeonhole The Cranberries. And we were just huge; it was just sensational.

The 11-minute 'Colouring of Pigeons' takes The Knife's experimental, cerebral side to new heights.

I wrote probably my phattest banging record with Knife Party: 'Pile Driver.'

I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I loved about books into the story of music, to pile it together.

If you think about 'The Pill' by Loretta, that was totally blacklisted back then. But she revolutionized and liberated a generation of women - country listeners and beyond - that were sort of in that box and were able to break out of it.

One of my biggest inspirations was Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.'

We were both dabbling with music but no, I persuaded George, railroaded him really into forming a band. I think we both had the belief that we would make it. That was the central pillar around everything else.

In British music, you have indie, rock... Grime is now one of those pillars. It's a foundation of British music.

I sell bikinis. I sell comforters. I sell Cam'ron pillows. I sell a bunch of things off my likeness, and it all came from music, so it's definitely a blessing.

It was so freeing to branch out and work with people like Josh Dun of 21 Pilots who played on 'Savage' and 'Almost Had Me.'

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

You can see it on the Internet: There's an argument going on continually about, 'What is folk music?' And I don't really want to get involved in that. It's an endless argument, a 'How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?' kind of argument.

Tiesto is legend. I've been in the studio many times. We did a tour together; I jumped onstage with him, he jumped onstage with me. Still, every time, I have to pinch myself and realize this is the guy who made me start doing what I'm doing right now.

As a former music magazine editor, I still pine for the days when I used to know about all the best jams and new bands.

Ariel Pink never really existed because he was always Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, but then people started doing interviews with Ariel Pink as if Ariel Pink existed.

I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.

When I walk around on the street and someone comes up to me, I have just as many full-grown men with large beards in Slipknot shirts saying he likes my band as much as I do girls with bright pink hair.

I love Pink, and I love Christina Aguilera. Something about Christina always inspires me to do things that are really different.

If you call making people smile with 'The Pink Panther,' then I made a contribution.

It's very difficult to be funny musically. I think I achieved It with 'The Pink Panther.'

It drove me mad not being able to know more about Pink Floyd when I was a little kid. But that's the great thing - there was this mystery behind it, and we couldn't find out enough. It made your mind work, it made you seek after it or try to interpret it. It made you envision or imagine what they were doing.

I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.