Quotes About Music

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

All my album artwork is body painting.

People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop doing it or having it. On the other hand, it seems we don't need painting anymore. Culture is more interested in entertaining people.

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money.

I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works.

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

The only thing about rock n' roll in my house is a couple of paintings of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan - and they were expensive, too.

Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of boots.

Sometimes I'll have words or concepts written down before I have any type of music or anything. So when I have that, sometimes I just hear a beat and, if I feel like it'll match with the story that I have written down sonically, then I'll just pair them together.

At this point, I have 10 pairs of cat earrings because fans bring them to me. The next song I write, I'm going to be like, 'I love Chanel.'

I've always enjoyed the bohemia of Paisley.

Brad Paisley is very funny. Who else is funny? I think Reba McEntire is very funny.

Sean and I are fighting so many cliches, it's funny. But ultimately we just want to play people the songs we wrote while we were in our pajamas, in love.

I've been offered roles in Indian films, but I wanted my debut film to be from Pakistan. A lot of people think that I've made my music career from India, but that's not true. I made it big in Pakistan, and then I went across the border.

Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

Coke Studio is a big platform for music in Pakistan and I really feel honored to be a part of it.

I wish the people of India and Pakistan peace and harmony. Artistes and craftsmen in both the countries must interact with each other as talent has no borders. We both have common music, culture and craftsmanship.

In India, people have greeted me with great love. Not as a Pakistani, but as a singer. They respect me and I feel very much appreciated.

I am the Crystal Palace DJ. I'm the guy who gets us going. I play the songs.

Our first ever live gig was in front of Buckingham Palace, an Olympic event attended by some of the royal family, and we had to follow James Brown.

I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.