Quotes About Music

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.

With the first album, there was a lot of angst. I was very naive. I thought I was on top of the whole thing, but I really didn't know what I was getting into.

I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.

The audiences used to say, 'Are you a Donovan fan or a Dylan fan?' It was all very naive, really.

For a while there I wasn't sure that anybody cared about being the best at anything, and it's nice to have a group of guys that feel like we're doing it for the cause. Maybe we're just really young and naive for thinking music can matter, but it does to us.

When I first heard Nina Simone, her naked truth shocked me. Whenever she sang, it felt like lightning bolts in my soul. Every song was like a movie, a unique and very different vignette.

The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.

Usually, when I see films that don't have any score attached to them, I think they're beautiful. I love just the naked sound of the voice. That's already music.

Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

My dad's name is Robert Stafford. His music name is R. L. Stafford; he makes gospel music.

Drumming is my middle name.

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it.

They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.

I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.

Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.

I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

At my high school, there were always kids carrying acoustic guitars around, which is why I named my band the Mountain Goats. I didn't want to seem like one of those guys who brought his guitar to the party whether you asked him to or not.

I wrote a song with a guy named Brian McKnight, who's a huge R&B guy.

My mother named me for Marty Robbins.

The only albums that I have personally named were 'number 5,' 'number 8' and 'number 10.'

My dad named me that before anybody knew anything about the other Loretta Lynn. She hadn't even put a record out yet.

'Motherwort.' 'Great Leopard's Bane.' These are awesome band names.