Quotes About Music

When I'm onstage the joy is to try to be the best I can be, I'm there because I want it to be perfect.

I might come across like kind of a show-off onstage and stuff, but I like collaborating with people.

There are a bunch of talented bands out there... So yeah, I often think, 'Why aren't these people onstage and why do I have a microphone?'

Musicians want to be heard. So I'm not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in that sense. Because some people carry it with them.

For the second album, 'Discovery,' when we had to think about doing a live show I think we were not happy with the way it would look like and sound like. We were not happy coming onstage with just two or three samplers and a few drum machines, you know?

I saw a concert with Nena singing '99 Red Balloons' on TV and I said, 'I will also go onstage and sing.'

To be able to be at the level that I perform onstage, I have to embody everything I've made my music about. Which is me.

My dad loves it - being onstage - but I don't.

I got into this business because you can get gratification from it the moment you set foot onstage.

You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.

The Yardbirds sort of disbanded, and I was disappointed because I thought what we were doing was really good. I thought we were really onto something. I thought I was really onto something with these ideas that I had.

We were always in church, and always singing, so once I realized that music was something that I had a knack for, I sort of latched onto it, and it helped give me an identity and figure out who I was as a person. It informed my way into theater, which informed my way into television.

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.

I loved music before I stumbled onto acting.

When we walk onto that stage I'm not feeling like I'm ruled by any other band.

I listen to different artists. I open my mind to different artists.

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

I think I was 10 or 11 years old. I think the first song I learned about then was 'Open Arms.' Then, when I got tired of listening to 'Open Arms,' I borrowed my friend's Journey album, 'Escape,' and tried to listen to every song.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

Nowadays, people have an open mind vis-a-vis new artists like Meghan Trainor, Nico & Vinz, Hozier - there are hits coming out of everywhere.

I have an open mind, and I try to be critical of none of the bands, even if something's not to my personal taste. After all, somebody worked really hard on that music.

I think my fans are much more open-minded than some other bands' fan bases are.

David Harrington, who's the violinist and founder of Kronos, is a super open-minded and adventurous guy.