Quotes About Music

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif.

Northern soul was huge in Manchester in the '70s and '80s; I went to a lot of all-nighters.

I played the bars in northern California since I was 18. We played at least three hours, and there's no which-way about it: That definitely helped.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.

I can play the harmonica with my nose.

We really put on a very high energy rock n' roll show. We don't go around with our noses in the air. We're very crazy. But I think when we did 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' people thought we take ourselves very seriously.

In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

'Losing My Edge' was an anthem for the aging music nerd, with lyrics detailing a comically epic list of historical dates, bands and attended gigs: the anti-hipster's defence against 'the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered Eighties.'

I think nostalgia is kind of dangerous in music.

Im not a nostalgia freak, I never listen to old Spandau Ballet stuff.

There's so much nostalgia for music from the past.

I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.

It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.

That person who's going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we're not really going to placate. We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.

My music is nostalgic. The early Neil Sedaka songs are always catchy and very singable.

I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nostalgic. To me, that's what sampling does in songs; it's making deeper layers for people who know where it comes from, but also referencing another part of my history and my memory or a memory that I have.

I have a thing for major 7ths. They've got a very mournful, nostalgic quality to them.

'Nostalgic' was just all my influences and me just being like, 'Yo, I'm going to be the hardest one out of everybody.'