Quotes About Music

If you were to talk to somebody from Georgia you would understand what he's saying, he wouldn't sound like your next-door neighbor in Montana, but other than that it's the same language, just with a few little different nuances. That's just like country and blues, or blues and rock 'n' roll. They're the same music with different accents.

A musical by its very nature doesn't allow for a lot of nuances.

All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of familiarity.

I am who I am. I can't do anything that doesn't have nuances of all the music I've done in the past.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

My song in 'Vaastav' was my debut dance number.

I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.

Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but it made continuity from album to album and that was our way of doing it.

It's my music. It's my craft. If you don't like it, then turn it off. Don't listen to it. But a lot of people listen to it... The numbers, they add up.

There are numerous different kinds of drum sounds - some are more ambient and roomy and this, that, and the other, the John Bonham kind of thing. Then there's kinda what I did with Pantera, which was much more attacky, and then with what I did for 'Blood For Blood' on the Hellyeah record is kind of a combination of all of that.

When people hear the name Gregory Isaacs, I want dem to think of 'Night Nurse' and 'Red Rose For Gregory' and 'The Cool Ruler.' I love it when somebody comes up to me and say, 'I love your songs.'

When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.

I always liked really heavy guitar music, but didn't like the long-winded songs that went with it. And I always liked pop songs, but was driven nuts because the guitars were so wimpy sounding. So I decided to put the two together. That's how the Muffs started.

I bought a bar because we got banned from playing everywhere else. We were too nuts, and everyone was scared of us. It was Des Moines, Iowa, remember.

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

Any Michael Jackson song will make any dancer go nuts.

I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.

I can count on one hand the number of conductors-composers-arrangers that I enjoy working with, and at the top of that list is Mack Wilberg. I feel like I've known Mack forever. I'm just nuts for him.

To put it in a nutshell, I'm known for basically killin' the rhymes, you know what I'm sayin,' goin' for it.

Life is nutty, so it's good to sing and have a good time.

Growing up in the neighborhoods I did in Oakland, you don't know the Beatles, but I started learning their songs.

Oakland has always been my muse.