Quotes About Music

I love old school rock and roll.

We grew up with break-dancing and MCing, the old school, that whole era of just having a good time and knowing that the music was good.

I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.

There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.

I look up to a lot of old school drummers from the '70s, '80s, and '90s.

I'm a bit of a Fleetwood Mac girl. I also think you can't beat a bit of old school Girls Aloud to get in the mood for going out.

I love old school music, that's just always been my thing.

I come from an old school of thought where there are musicians on stage, in the house, sitting and jamming to create things. I cannot make music without live instruments. It just doesn't feel right.

I was thinking about working with Lady Gaga, not 'Born This Way' but more her old stuff that she did with RedOne from her first album. I think that would be really fun - a cool combination.

I make music, I check the mix and if its right, Ill put it to bed and move on. The memories are all in your mind, I dont have time to look at old stuff.

Some people love 'Roots;' some people hate 'Roots.' Some people only like the old stuff. Some people want me to play like I did when I was 15. I can't do that all the time. I try to bring a little bit of that into some stuff that I do, but I can't just be that only. There's much more to life than that.

I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.

I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.

I love Viennese waltzes and polkas, and especially ceilidhs and old-fashioned formation dancing.

My parents felt old-fashioned, growing up - they were quite disciplinarian. We went to church and had to learn music, but in hindsight it was a good thing.

I think being a little older and a little more determined and being a little more evolved in my case and maturity in the kind of music I was doing and how I was doing it really helped to keep me grounded and with an audience that could appreciate what I was doing, who grew with me and evolved with me and kept me alive and around.

When an audience takes to a song and it becomes older, in a way it changes it entirely. And then the journey just begins.

As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.

I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music.

When Yauch died, it was really like losing my older brother. I mean, I have biological older brothers, but growing up, Adam really was my older brother.

I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

I was always interested in listening to music - and, of course, when my older brother brought home 'Heartbreak Hotel,' that was it.

Remixes also appeal to the older generation who get to revisit their past through these songs and after all, music is loved by all, so the more music, the happier people are.

Rock had a huge impact. Anything that the older generation hates is usually loved by kids. Nothing much changes - that still continues today.