Quotes About Music

I have no time to write songs.

We detested folk music because it was cerebral and sedate and we had no time for that. But the Byrds were OK because they electrified it and they had English hairstyles.

At no time was I trying to write a crossover record.

When you sit there doing a film score for three months there's no time to experiment.

The thing I love about hip-hop is that it's so creative. It's so creatively rewarding. When you hit it, and you hit it big, there are no words.

As far as melodies go, I could probably write 100 songs in a day - with no words of course - just because I love melody.

A live album is a no-brainer.

The biggest thing for me, I hate going to concerts where no-one's moving. Everyone should be dancing and having a good time.

I think honesty is an important thing when writing a song. If you can't sing it with conviction, then no-one else is going to believe it.

I've got my fanbase; I believe in my music; I believe in my vision... And ain't no-one gonna stop me from doing that!

The difference between Reggie Noble and Redman is that this 'Reggie Noble' album is more conceptual. It got concepts on it, it got auto-tune on it, it got a pop record on it. I had fun on it.

I don't know really, apart from Barnes & Noble, where you buy CDs anymore.

Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me. For example, if my kid said to me, 'I want to give it all up,' whatever it is that they're doing, 'and I want to take my saxophone and go out,' I would say, 'May God go with you. This is a great and noble thing that you're doing.'

Nobody ever asks me about my lyrics.

In rock music, you have a big success before you turn 30, then there is sort of a decay. Then there is the reunion, and everyone is waiting to hear what you were doing when you were 20, and nobody cares what you are doing at 50 or 60. But the more I continue, the more I produce, the more I play every year in bigger places.

Music is so important. Because in Chicago it's up to us to tell the stories nobody else will.

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.

I remember, in 1999, when we did the last Ozzfest that we were part of, and I think Disturbed was on it, Static-X, obviously Ozzy, us, and we were the only band on the tour that had a rider that had any alcohol. Nobody else had it.

The Nocturnal' was very nearly beyond me.

Whatever makes your head nod, that's want we want to give you.

I think no composer knows he's creating a hit until the audience gives it a nod.

I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.