Quotes About Music

My father was retired military, and my mother was an educator. She was incredibly creative. I used to love going to her school during the summer and helping her decorate her classroom. I would draw Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck. She was a sixth grade teacher. She and my father are the ones that got me into my love of music.

I love singing with my mouth open. And I'm actually able to sing even better that way.

But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

I don't really plan what comes out of my mouth, and that's what makes most of my lyrics entertaining.

My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I am 90 years old. When I hit the stage and people do not know who I am, they automatically assume, before I open my mouth, I am going to sing a Bob Marley song!

Justin Vernon is one of the collaborators Kanye will always go to. He doesn't fit in with any genres - you never know if he's gonna sing, like, the Bee Gees or some crazy, distorted thing. And you don't know what he's saying half the time. He's kind of like Michael McDonald, like he's got marbles in his mouth.

I like anything by 50 Cent and Snoop Dog. I love the way they mouth their way around words.

Sometimes the lyrics just fall out of my mouth.

We've always been a band who wants to put our money where our mouths are. We have political songs, but we don't like to hit people over the heads with stuff. So it's better to do benefits and causes and talk about it later rather than always trying to put it in the song.

Music is your way to change the frequencies of everything around you and move your own body, move your whole environment.

I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.

All I can do is move forward with my music and just be happy that Mars Volta ever happened at all.

I've been lucky to have been given opportunities in different genres. And most of the time I've felt that the exploration, the composing, the collaboration, was a move forward.

When the Beatles came to America and took me off the map, I thought I would return the favor, and I moved the family to England!

My first job in a country band was after I moved to California.

The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.

When I go to a live show, I want to be moved. That's why you do it. And it's not very often that a band will move you live.

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.

When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me.

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else.