Quotes About Music

Life is so mundane, isn't it? It's great to hear a guitarist getting into it and the rhythmic section blasting, even if it's all meaningless.

I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!

If you go to pretty much everywhere in the developing world, you will find Bob Marley murals, and you'll find people playing his music.

I always get excited over James Murphy's work and everything that comes out of DFA. I really like the way that Murphy and LCD Soundsystem mix electronic, dance and rock together.

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.

Vocally, it's important to sing every day. It's a muscle, and you have to keep it in shape.

After a post-Bill Berry softening with albums like 'Up' and 'Reveal,' R.E.M. seems to be toughening up again; on the strength of the first single, 'Discoverer,' the band's new record looks to continue with the same muscular rock and roll that defined its last album, 'Accelerate.'

I decided to see how my voice sounds on different type of records. So I did Eminem and the Biggie, Florence and the Machine, and Muse covers. A couple of them just came from some jam sessions between me and my sister in her bedroom at my father's house in San Diego.

I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup - like maybe the drummer for Muse... It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days.

I guess my husband is a muse as well.

When my first record came out, it was in the middle of the real Muse, Keane, British thing, and that beat-driven thing wasn't really that cool at the moment.

A lot of my songs are inspired by a muse of some sort, whether she's real or not.

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

I suppose I write music for people, not for the filing cabinet or the museum.

My mother is a retired music teacher. She taught me in high school, and she would take us and put us in these madrigal groups. We would go to a museum or whatever and just perform.

It'd be really great to see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame mature. It's a good facility there in Cleveland. I like the museum a lot.

Kraftwerk has become historic and is now exposed in museums.

I see music as fluid architecture.

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Good Punjabi music before a match pumps me up. It gives me a kick.