Quotes About Music

There's kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don't know exactly what that is. So, it's hard for me to answer that question.

I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

I'm not really a professional composer; I just compose now and then when someone asks me to.

To have a sort of career in music still kind of freaks me out every now and then.

When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.

If I don't have headphones, I can't run. Nowadays, I listen to Drake, Future, and Boosie.

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.

I think nowadays it's important to have the support of a group of people who are ready to invest time and effort in your music and vision.

I feel like when I listen to music nowadays, it's a lot of commands. It's a lot of demands. Do this dance, or feel like this. It's not like, 'how do you feel?'

The album format is what we grew up on. Its what we aspired to when we were first discovering music - its what's what we know. We actually talked about this because nowadays, with iTunes and everything, there's a lot of pressure to get this track and that track, whatever.

Nothing matches the sheer euphoria of discovering a new melody or a new batch of chords that just come out of nowhere.

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

There must be four or five hundred choirs here in London alone. In a way, there's nowhere else on Earth I could go and get this level and passion for singing in the one place.

My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere.

Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.

Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.

If I was just a country singer, I wouldn't be near as cool and I wouldn't have nowhere near as cool of a fan base.

I generally write the songs accidentally. They generally come out of nowhere.

An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.