Quotes About Music

Romance is one of the things that most countries share, and I've noticed how different communities have their own ways of singing about love and heartbreak.

I learned everything I know from leaving the E Street Band. And of course, one of the things I learned is, I never should have left.

We're both big Glen Campbell fans - it's one of the things that united us in eternal love.

I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

I love music. I love filmmaking. I love law enforcement. I love doing a lot of the green work that I do, the charity work that I do, and I don't think that any one person has to be just one thing.

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.

One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.

One of my dad's friends from the music industry came over to our house one time and heard me sing, and he said, 'She should audition for this role I have!' So I did! It was a movie called 'The Gospel,' which I did when I was five. That was when I was like, 'I want to do this acting thing!'

My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'

We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical. I doubt if you get another 'Wu-Tang Clan.' That might be harder than getting the new 'Jackson Five.' Certain groups you only get one time, and we just happened to be that group.

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.

Composing for movies is not an easy job - its a different art altogether, and moreover, I don't want to get involved in too many things at one time and want to concentrate on my shows and albums.

I used to do this huge jump off the drum riser. I had a good way of landing so I wouldn't hurt myself, but then one time, I landed on my elbow.

I've probably represented almost every major artist in the world, either directly or peripherally, at one time or another.

You see so many musicians come and go. For me, it's really about the longevity in the music industry. It's not all about having a lot of hit records at one time.

There was just one time when the band took a big break, and I did that Nina project in Japan in 1999.

I've always been talented, always been able to sing or remember a song after hearing it one time.

I would give anything if it went back to analog age. I mean, music was so real, and you had to sing everything on a record; you had to play everything on a record. There was no cut-and-paste - you couldn't get the chorus right one time and then paste it every other time; you really had to be good at what you did.

With music I feel like it's the one time when I don't have to think and I don't have to contrive anything.

Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

If you only play metal, it's going to be very apparent that you're a one-dimensional drummer.