Quotes About Music

Me and Stormzy. We're gonna do an album. We're gonna do an album of Nelson Riddle arrangements in grime form. It's gonna be called 'Griddle'.

I even have nephews who make music, my daughter makes music. I don't know what advice to give them these days. It's really a tough industry to break into.

Nepotism can be one of the factors that affected the industry in the past, but today, what matters is good content, talented artists and good sound. That's what every music label, director or producer is looking for.

I'm basically a music nerd, especially when it comes to electronic music.

I'm an R.E.M. nerd and have been since I was 14.

I always felt out of place. I wasn't a cool kid, but I wasn't a nerd, either. I had trouble finding my place. But when I found the music, I had a place of my own.

I was never really a nerd. I'm not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of stuff. I was in drama class, and I'm a big movie and music buff. And I'm into sports.

Oh, I am such a nerd when it comes to music - I only listen to Broadway!

I was really a nerd, and I was really more of a jazz nerd. So when I had my chance to put on something, most of the time it was going to be jazz, or gospel, or something like that.

Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.

I am a big music nerd.

I was a music theater nerd in high school.

We were the choir nerds.

I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.

I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.

Stay in school and band, kids! It had its nerdy moments, and I always felt like I wanted to do something more with it.

I was a failed grunge kid who was too nerdy to totally get down with rock.

We loved Andy, so we wanted to keep him. He was in both bands, but Nerve Agents broke up.

Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.

I love listening to music in general before I compete. It's something that calms me down, and meditating and breathing before I get up there to calm all my nerves.

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.

I like to work smart and make music that people want to hear - just finding ways to not get on people's nerves when I'm coming through their ears.

At some point the label 'hard-rocker' began to get on my nerves, and I decided to break those chains. My music definitely doesn't sound like AC/DC or the Scorpions - nothing against either of these bands, they're okay. But I was fed up with that image.