Quotes About Music

I got my first guitar when I was nine because I wanted to be the fifth Beatle, even though they had already broken up and John Lennon died that year.

Songs being nine to 10 minutes long? Everyone is scared to to do it.

I played acoustic guitar so intensely, for so long - for nine hours a day as a 10-year-old, writing songs through the night, on tour constantly from when I was 19 - that I destroyed my arms and shoulders in the process.

I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.

Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.

I like the idea of working in an album-sized chunk, you know, and I never looked at Nine Inch Nails as a project that would be a hit-driven, single-based kind of thing.

But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.

Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.

Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'

What I particularly liked about Nineties hip hop was it had a certain reverence for the groove that I hadn't been hearing in a while.

Bands in the Nineties seem to forget the entertainment aspect of rock music.

My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

Nineties hip-hop in particular really shaped what became the common pop cultural language that we all speak.

I love nineties stuff like Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails. It'd be my dream to have a Radiohead-themed episode of 'Glee.' I also love jazz greats like Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock.

Nineties hip-hop was a big influence for me; it still is. I love '90s everything. And it's when I was born, too. I'm a '90s kid for sure.

Ninety percent of the time, when I put on my headphones, I forget to turn on my music. Literally 10 minutes will go by before I realize that there's no music.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

It's hella crazy being included in the music for the 'Ninja Turtles' movie.

I actually really liked the music to the 'Friday the 13th' Nintendo game. I still listen to it all the time. I sampled it in a couple records, too. It's hypnotic and dark but also really pretty.

I've been with the group since 1965. I will be beginning my fifth year on April ninth this year.

I don't really like Nirvana that much.

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.