Quotes About Music

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

It would be neat to sing with Roger Miller.

To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.

If you're a lay person listening to jazz, you don't necessarily understand everything that's happening within the form. But you get the sense of it, the feel of it, because you're getting to hear something that develops right in front of your face.

I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

I've always loved music, not necessarily just the Osmonds.

As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

My foundation is acoustic guitar, and it is finger-picking and all of that and sort of an orchestral style of playing. Lead guitar came later, more out of the necessity to do so because of expectations in a particular situation.

You never learn everything on that guitar neck.

I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.

The ones I have got great necks; of course, all of the Fenders from that era are incredible.

Most of the time, I'm making music. There'll be moments of my life where I feel like I gotta to take a break and come back to the music. It's hard to explain, but you need to get a break from it and then come back to it. It's like you gotta lose something to appreciate it.

I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a few songs I needed to take from incomplete demos to working with someone else and finishing them.

I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

Eventually, I had to figure out what the hell I was going to do with my life. I needed to find my way back to Fleetwood Mac.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Putting a needle on a record is almost like you're making a commitment to listening to something.

I've said the Grammys messed up metal because it's not on TV. What I'm saying is when you're in a metal category, it's not televised, and it doesn't move the needle forward for metal artists, and I wish they had more respect for the genre.