Quotes About Music

I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

I couldn't live without Radio 1. They condemned me to oblivion, but they're what I grew up with.

People talk about the Ozzfest and what it can do for your career, and I guess I'm just oblivious to it.

After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure it out because they don't even use the technology, and they're oblivious to how people consume music these days.

A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.

I was kind of an obnoxious kid. I would imitate Celine Dion. I would jump around and belt to the rafters and do the accent and everything.

I like all the obnoxious Eagles stuff that just drives people crazy. I love 'Life In The Fast Lane' and 'Hotel California.'

We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure.

I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental.

I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.

The bands I like are not obscure at all. Far from it.

I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me.

I am not interested to sing in Bollywood. I sing for only those actors whom I admire. I sing free of cost for them. I want to take independent music ahead, and my songs are completely based on my observations.

If you observe, all classic love songs have a tinge of melancholy that comes naturally with the composition.

Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging music, writing music.

Usually I'll be with my friends and I'll observe everything, and grab emotions from that to write my songs.

There are days when I'm completely obsessed with Kate Bush, and there are days when I'm completely obsessed with the Eurythmics. Then it's Aretha Franklin, then it's Lena Horne, then it's Ella Fitzgerald, then it's John Legend, then it's Michael Jackson. Music, to me, is like food, so I feel like whatever I need that day, I can get from a song.

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

When I turned 14, I became very obsessed with writing songs, and it took over my existence.

I'm a huge fan of the '70s. I'm obsessed with the music of that time.

I love Amy Winehouse. I'm obsessed with her, I think she's brilliant. And Ed Sheeran is just my all-time fave.

I'm probably more obsessed with football that I am with music.