Quotes About Music

Dre says it gets on his nerves when I try to rap. He'd rather have me sing.

I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.

The first time I sang in front of an audience, I was about 14 - it was at my guitar school's showcase, and there were about 30 people there. I was so nervous, but I did it.

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.

I'm nervous, but once I get a guitar on and start a song, after the first few seconds, I can feel it ease. I don't have to worry about anything other than the music.

I'm nervous the first few songs, and then I'm like, 'I got this audience. I'm ready!'

At first, I ain't gon' lie, I used to be a little nervous about what people were gon' think about my music, but once I let that go, then everything started happening.

Being on the stage is the one place I don't get nervous. Before the show is another story, but once I'm up there, and the first chord hits, I go to this other place. It's like a dream land.

There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.

I get nervous as hell when it's time for the songs to come out.

There is no such thing as getting rid of nervousness.

The Netflix thing with Nas is more of a documentary, where we kind of... talk. We go to my neighborhood. You get to see where I'm from and all that. And then, I'm in the studio with Nas.

I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I don't do any of that. But I do geek out to music.

I'm a huge Weezer fan, and 'Pinkerton' is just a crazy, crazy neurotic album.

Music gave me that neutral lane to relate with everyone.

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

I'll never forget when I was, like, 17, and 'Highway to Hell' came on the radio, and I was like, 'Dude, listen to that guy's voice!'

I remember Gayle King popped up on the screen, wearing a green dress - I'll never forget it - to announce the best R&B album category and when she said my name I could not believe it. After that I closed my laptop. I didn't need to hear anything else.

I'll never forget, I was talking to the singer in one of the heavier rock bands I was in, and it was like a screaming band, and I was like, 'Man, why don't we make a song that's like 'Let's Celebrate!.'

'Never Forget You' was the first song I co-wrote.

I'll never forget when we played Shepherd's Bush in London. We played 'I Run To You', and we put the mic out for the last chorus, and you could hear them singing the chorus with the beautiful accent that they have.

I've always been a huge Eric Church fan. I'll never forget being in college listening to his first album and how much it inspired to write my own music.