Quotes About Music

'The Haters' has some of the generalities of band experiences that I've had - the camaraderie, the grubbiness, the outsized collective ambitions and frequent painful collisions with reality - but very few of the specifics. I guess it was a way for me to take some of my experiences to their logical crazy extremes.

A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.

That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.

I get so nervous, I get belly pains before I go on stage.

It has been an honor to paint on stage and have my art grace the albums and stage sets of renowned musicians.

I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it.

When I write music, these colors pop out of me. It's hard to describe, but basically when I write music, I paint, and I add colors, and I add notes.

Every day I paint, and every day I compose music.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

I'm interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don't know how to play the banjo, but I do play the banjo.

When I was asked to compose a score for... 'Palo Alto,' I first thought to myself, 'What is the house that these characters would want to live in?' I wanted to paint a picture and color scheme that I could work around. I gently apply different daubs to see what fits to match the color I have in mind with these characters.

The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound.

I know how to do music, no matter how weird I look on stage with the face paint, mask, and hospital scrubs.

I play the piano, paint, and go for trekking.

I don't see a problem with looking at women as beautiful objects. I'm an artist. I don't know how to paint, but I know how to make music, and women are art.

Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle.

I'm a painter in sound.

I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?

I don't consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings, and music is the same way; you can see what other people are going through.

Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.

I look at music like an art form, so it's almost like painting for me, you know?

Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.