Quotes About Music

I'm a fan of odd meters. For example, I've decided to sing 'No Business Like Show Business,' but I'll be doing it in constantly changing 5/4, 7/4 and 11/4 time signatures. I've found a way to make that work.

The first Nardwuar video I watched was, funnily enough, the first Odd Future one.

I find it natural to write on the bass, and a lot of people find that really odd.

It's not odd to be a female in a band anymore. It's not odd to be a girl carrying a guitar case to a gig.

I always liked music that was melodic, but that had something a bit more wonky and odd going on too.

I've always been attracted to odd chord changes and interesting melodies.

I really wanted to have a name that was double-barreled. I think at the time I was listening to a lot of Odd Future - like Earl Sweatshirt and Frank Ocean - and I wanted my name to have a ring to it.

What's odd is that Romanthony and Todd Edwards are not big in the United States at all. Their music had a big effect on us.

Oddly I've been DJ-ing for many years, actually, but not many people know about it because if you go and DJ in a club and you've got 2000 people in there, then obviously about 2000 people know that you're a DJ.

We were the first all-girl band that wrote and played our own stuff. You know, the odds were really against us because rock has traditionally been dominated by men.

The odds were against us being an all-female garage band from California.

If an offer comes my way, I would love to sing in every Indian language. It will be like an ode to my fans from every corner of the country.

The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you're into the Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end.

I feel like Houston is one of the leading things in music culture. Everyone loves the Houston culture. It needs to have its own monument, its own moment for artists like me, artists like Beyonce who set it off.

I don't want to be in everyone's face. I'm a big music fan, and I get really pissed off when it gets like that... and I don't want people to get like that with me.

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

My imam at the Central Mosque said there was no problem with making music. In fact, he encouraged me - he said if the songs are moral, not offensive, then go ahead.

I make it a point to listen to a song before being a part of it to ensure that there is nothing offensive or downgrading.

Duane lived life right on the edge. If you ever read Goethe's Faust, Duane Allman was very much that kind of figure. His deal with Mephistopheles was to experience everything life has to offer, good and bad.

I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis.

If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.

Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

I didn't decide to play guitar, but that was the instrument which I was offered. I've always been interested in horn-type instruments, such as a saxophone; but those instruments are very expensive, so my dad bought me a guitar instead. I didn't like the guitar at first, but after noodling on it for several months, I developed a feel for it.