Quotes About Music

I thought I'd be spending my life making brooms, mops, chairs and things. That's fine for some blind people, but I wanted something more out of life. Music seemed the best way.

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why.

I like having the radio on, that way you're challenged to listen to things that aren't your choice.

Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.

I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come out that way - is try to make challenging music that flirts with accessibility.

A lot of the 'Back In Black' stuff is really challenging.

It's a job, and it's challenging. But I love music and creating. That's why I got into music.

When we were writing 'In Our Bones,' everything was bubbly champagne all the time so that's what ended up on the record.

Back in 1981, the chances of a punk-rock girl band from L.A. doing what we did was completely nil.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

Music changes kids, and kids change the world.

The Voice' changed my life.

Music changed my life in so many ways.

I love Bad Bunny. He's changing the game. I think he's doing something very important with his success.

I think all my anger and hate comes out in the music; that should be the way you channel these things. It's like, I don't go out and beat people up, I do it with my guitar.

It is a really interesting to hear yourself on the radio. I've gotten to hear myself in different capacities. I've heard myself on Sirius XM on the bluegrass channels, and on WSM and other places.

Whenever there was chaos in my house, whether it was arguing, being in a cramped space with all of us kids and screaming, I found an empty space where I could just put music on and move.

There is so much restlessness and chaos in the society, and that's what music depicts.

Chaos to me is really important in music.

Sepultura had a political album like Chaos A.D. that concerned itself with politics and war. I continued that in some areas with Soulfly.

I think Sepultura, I have to say 'Refuse/Resist' is one of my favorite riffs. It's really energetic and I love the song. If you were to find a way to put the word 'chaos' into a song, it is the riff of 'Refuse/Resist.' It's chaotic, catchy, and heavy.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.