Quotes About Music

The majority of the people think that noise is not music. I want to accept noise and even errors and glitches. I enjoy them.

In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.

To me, the best music always comes when - it sounds cliche, but you just try to block out the noise and try to not have any pressure with it and take your time.

The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.

I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making noise on anything.

All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.

I just enjoy the sound as I hear it in everything around me. The high and low frequencies of sound bewitch me. Whether I am in a shop, in the bathroom or listening to noise that my fans make... everything is music to my ears and drives me. I just put all these things in rhythm when I'm playing.

We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band.

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

I give my children a lot of freedom, which I suppose a lot of parents don't do. I do have rules but nothing like no noise, no music.

I have an ear monitor to block outside noise when I'm performing. It makes it easier. But sometimes I like to take the ear monitor off and listen to the craziness going on.

On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only on the intro, where all those weird noises are happening.

If you remember one thing from talking to me, remember this: I am just a girl who makes noises - and I'm incredibly lucky that people happen to like those noises.

I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.

You know, I'd forget words and start just singing noises.

When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.

I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.

I've always loved aggressive, hard, noisy, yet melodic bands, and at the same time I've always loved 'Blue' by Joni Mitchell.

I saw Double Leopards play at my school and realized there were other ways to approach noisy music that weren't necessarily aggressive. That became a very important concept for me as a musician. I don't think I would have been that interested in creating and performing my own music if it wasn't for this group.

I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.

When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me - I have a wariness about trying for a hit.

I feel like it's not a bad average for every album I've got in the United States to be nominated for something off the album.