Quotes About Music

I never really had any trouble selling my music to country audiences. They appreciate honest lyrics and straightforward melodies, and that's what I do.

It's perhaps easier to say what prog rock isn't than what it is: it's not three-minute pop songs, it's not straightforward rock, metal, blues or jazz, but can have elements of all them and more. It's a form that is on the boundaries of many different forms, that is open to all sorts of influences.

I don't really strain my voice.

When I came into comedy in 2005, I didn't even know there was discrimination against musical comics in the alternative-comedy strain.

It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.

When that punk strain came to Britain and infected everyone. It was more than just a sound. There was an ethos, an ethic that went with it.

In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.

You know there's this really strange mystique about Simon and Garfunkel, when they use the amazing mandolin and all the percussive stuff. It sometimes sounds very global.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.

When I write music, it's very strange: maybe it's normal, but I see things in songs in different colors.

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage.

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, 'What a strange turn of events.'

I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.

I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar.

The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason... But that's what's great about music - however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them.