Quotes About Music

It's been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it's actually working out okay.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.

I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something.

I'm really focused when I'm working out, so I don't really listen to music. I like to listen to music after, because it's like, 'Yeah! I finished! Let's party!

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

Nobody was interested in playing Bob Marley on the radio. We had to tour him - that was the only way it could work.

I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.

Frankly I don't listen to lyrics (a problem in that I apparently work in musical theatre) I just want a good tune that doesn't require the use of too much grey matter.

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.

I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.

I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band were crap. So if I have a band they'd have to really suck.

I really do like seeing other people perform my music. It's one of the most rewarding things for me, so it's worth the extra work.

I fell in love with Nashville. I got lots of work.

To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can.

There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.