Quotes About Music

Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been a really fun and blessed ride.

I love making music. I love that it's unstructured, that I get to go perform and play in front of people, to meet new people. I love to do the thing I'm best at every day.

The whole 'School of Rock' experience was really cool, and just meeting new people from all over.

At a festival, the people there are not all your fans, and this gives me a chance to win over new people. I look at it as a challenge.

What I like to do when I get to a new place is buy local music early on and listen to it while we're driving around. I think it helps explain and illuminate the culture of where you are if local music is playing.

I've never been one to learn scales and do exercises. Maybe I'm lazy, but I just don't take to that kind of thing. Learning other people's songs is enjoyable, and my fingers tend to go to new places because I'm not playing my music, the stuff that comes naturally to me.

During the day I'll work on music. I have a sampler and a drum machine out with me and I write new songs while we're on the road.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

Playing new songs at festivals is weird, obviously. People at festivals are always a bit drunk, and probably just want to hear stuff they know by bands they love, or are checking you out and don't know your stuff very well.

My initial ideas are just a starting place. As a record goes along, it becomes more about making discoveries and getting excited about new songs.

Johnny Andrews can make me fly with his ideas for new songs. It has always been a pure pleasure to write with him.

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

We always try to get new songs. That's what AC/DC has always been about. You can listen to what we do, and you can go, 'Well, it's AC/DC, but it's a new song.' So that's what we've always tried to achieve. So we've always got that style.

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

In my concerts, I'm always doing new songs, so someone seeing me for the first time or many times before will be pleasantly surprised and hopefully entertained.

Amy Winehouse asked me a while ago if I had written any new songs. I played her something, and when I had finished, she looked at me and said, 'Is that it? Is that all you've got?'

You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That's how it all began.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

That's the thing I love the most - making records and creating new things. That's always the thing that grabbed me. Making records is the thing that I really love.

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.

I think, Koreans, they're really hard-working people. They're really innovative, and they try new things all the time, so I think it's just a matter of time when everyone will know K-pop.

It's hard to make music when you're not excited about it. So trying new things and going for new things is something that I can enjoy doing.

It never feels like work. I get to go to the studio and be with my friends every day and write new things and experiment with new sounds. We just have a blast.