Quotes About Music

I like the songs that are fun, that aren't gonna change the world - I've some of those - but even something like, 'You Should Be Here,' that was my chance to say, 'Look, this is me, too. I'm just a normal person.'

I never really approach collaborations as kind of normal things where they're arranged and they happen because you've arranged them. I've always been like this, I just have friends I hang out with, and while we're hanging out, if music happens then it happens.

I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers.

We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

We came from an era when women normally did not rock.

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say musically.

Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.

All syncopation means is accenting beats that you don't normally accent.

Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.

Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation.

Normally, when I write the setlist for a Dream Theater show, I'll change it up every night, and we can basically play whatever we want.

Backstreet has been around a long time. Normally, groups like us have a shelf life of two to four years. We always wanted to have a long stay in the music world.

When I started to write music that was completely divorced from any sort of idea of commercial success, the real me started to come out. Normally, a musician in a session for a pop record would have to discard a lot of ideas because they won't fit, because they're not commercial.

Normally doing an album you go from track to track and go, 'Let's not work on this one today, let's go work on the other one,' and I think you tend to get more self-indulgent that way.

Normally, I can get through a whole show with one guitar pick.

Normally the amount of music we have is what you hear on the album and that's it.

One very important side of my playing lies in rhythm; I have a very percussive style. It's one I've developed with Dream Theater over the years, and requires the guitar to be very locked into the rhythm of the drums... way more than what would normally entail.

NME is normally associated with indie rock. It ain't something I read as a kid.

I like to drive everywhere, so I normally like to sing out loud in my car where nobody else can hear me.

I'm lucky that I have people listening to my music, waiting to see me in North America.

I saw Berry in concert a couple of times in the late '70s - and like almost every North American male of a certain age, I went because a friend was hired by Berry that very day to be part of the legend's backup band.