Quotes About Music

Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.

I'd love to work with some of the people I've remixed for - Ed Sheeran or Chris Martin or The Weeknd. But it's not just big names like these guys that I want to collaborate with.

I want to write for big names like Whitney Houston and The Backstreet Boys.

I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names.

I think I initially started inventing characters in my songs because I didn't want to write directly about myself. Also, as a kid, I loved all the character names in Beatles songs, like Eleanor Rigby and Lovely Rita and Mean Mr. Mustard and Maxwell and Rocky Raccoon.

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

The fact that I have the chance to learn from the names I've been on tour with, I don't think you can ask for any more than that.

Genres are just names.

People like Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, Antonio Aguilar, Pedro Fernandez, Vicente Fernandez - these are probably all names that many people don't know, but they are very popular in the music industry. They were people that I grew up listening to and aspiring to be like one day.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

A cappella group names are hard!

I kind of feel bad that I don't know the names of the people in Girls Aloud!

I don't want to single anyone out. I'll just say that there are a lot of not good band names out there.

It was an honor to have our album and names mentioned on the Billboard charts.

The thing about music is that it gives voice and names to anguish and also addresses how to comfort it.

People just want the hottest records. It's not really about all the names attached to the project. It's about the work.

I wanted to be up there with all those names like Max Steiner.

Often people have to wake me up from a nap to tell me to go on stage.

No one's ever done what AC/DC did out of anywhere, really. Conquered the world, mate, that was the idea from the start. A little Napoleon in all of us.

With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it. You know, so we start to see our decisions, our opportunities, our every choice is a consumer choice.

I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.

I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists.