Quotes About Music

When we do reggae, it's normally a one-chord or a two-chord, or whatever it is. With Sting, there'll be chord changes, key changes.

I was into the Police. I dyed my hair white-blond and wanted to be Sting.

I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.

For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.

I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.

I can stitch a song together in about an hour anytime you want, but it won't have the depth.

I don't think they like the idea that the people who are buying the record get to choose what goes out, because it's their job. The fans even pre-ordered stock to make sure that I had some sort of presence.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time to sort of take stock of what you've done and whether it's got legs and whether it's going to really have a place.

I look at making records like you make a dish. A culinary experience. The way you throw in a tambourine, it's like spices or herbs. The main part of the song is the stock.

When I was in fourth grade, I made a song about the part in Stockholm where we come from.

There's this Afghani kid in Stockholm called Phat Deuce who's started sending us his music, and he's amazing.

Goteborg used to be a not very cool place to live. The culture centered around shrimp and bingo. Bands played Copenhagen and Stockholm and skipped Goteborg.

Frank Ocean called me when I was in Stockholm when I was, like, 17.

I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I'm going to invest in music.

I like New York. I like Philly. I like San Fran. I like when people are stoked. But Chicago's a real music town, and they're really good to us there. There's just something in the air there; people are just really stoked about music. Every time I go there, I have a great time, and the fandom is really heartwarming.

I want to stay where I am. I'm stoked to be a country artist.

I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked, and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it, and you can really just over-think everything.

You're always super stoked when you see that your song did go the distance and people are recognizing it.

At the start of the band's career, I had ideas for songs and thoughts I figured out, but at the time I wasn't sure how to write music or to finish a song. So for me to have finished a whole album on my own is a huge feat. That would be impressive to 15-year-old me. I think he'd be stoked.

Between 1958 and 1963, I sold about 40 million records - to the shock of my mother and father because I was always playing Beethoven. But I bought my mother a mink stole. She was very happy, and she said, 'I think this is better than Beethoven.'

Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English accent, the bowl-cut boy-child who shook those cherry-red maracas and always got the girl. He was also the guy who stole David Bowie's original name.

Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!