Quotes About Music

A lot of times, I don't feel responsible for the songs myself. But that's my job or my place in life: to keep my search and catch the ideas before they pass me by.

The music has a better feeling when you're responding to what's going on. Music is like playing handball, playing catch with someone, not playing golf. Everywhere the ball bounces is where you respond to it.

I like things that catch your ears.

I've always tried to come up with something that would catch your ear.

My aim is always catchy songs, or songs with meaning and I want to write music people can relate to, about things anyone could go through, just real, honest music... songs that mean something, songs that are inspired by true life events.

I think people like catchy and new types of music.

It doesn't take long to make catchy songs. That's not my problem.

I just want people to listen to the music and get something from it, whatever it may be. Whether it's a catchy lyric or a whole situation.

My goal is to write catchy songs that make people feel something.

It's so great when there's a catchy song that's fun and easy to listen to, but there's also a real artist behind it.

My style of songs will never get old because the music is very catchy.

'Kudi Maga' is a pub-style song, but the lyrics are really nice and the beats are catchy.

I really can't categorize the Muffs music.

With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find out which way we want to go with it.

Rap's the only music that they categorize like that. That's one thing that I hate, like, down South rap, or up North rap. Country is just country rather than wherever it's from. R&B, you don't call it Atlanta R&B, you know what I mean. So that's already like a shot at our culture.

As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

People like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding - I do not put myself in that category.

I was probably 16 or 17 when 'Core' came out, and I just remember how Scott could cater to the song and create these characters. That blew me away.

That's all I ever do, just try and do the best I can and cater to the song, cater to the music.

We are kind of country, but we do cater to louder kinds of music.

I've always loved singing and the catharsis of it.

Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.

It's really cathartic to play my songs live. I'm a really non-confrontational person, so my songs are kind of like all the things I never get to say to anyone.

I have always been a great fan of albums that are cathartic and that you can listen to them together and you can relate to them as a group of people or as friends.