Quotes About Music

At the beginning of each project, I like to create a palette of sound for that particular project.

I think, for me, a way to really come up with new ideas and come up with new ways of writing music is to create a unique sound palette or soundscape for all the films I'm working on.

When I was eight, my pals and I went up to my bedroom, put on our party frocks and mimed to ABBA records using broom handles as microphones.

My debut project was during a pandemic, so I was in the house and never got to see the people who listened.

I've actually got a Motley Crue channel on Pandora.

I love Florida Georgia Line. I love 'Round Here.' So if a fan wants to listen to that, and if a fan that wasn't listening to country music before is listening to 'Cruise' on Pandora, and after that a song by George Jones comes on, they may have never heard George Jones before. I think it's a good thing for the genre.

I listen to a lot of Pandora. I listen to the Hot 97 app.

The Pandora's box of unholiness is attempting to sing anything that Freddie Mercury ever sang.

I'm so passionate about Panic! at the Disco and Brendon Urie. I'm obsessed with him.

Panic! at the Disco, for me, has been an outlet to do whatever. I never felt like there were any rules. It was always carte blanche. I could do whatever I wanted. There were no rules set yet for the band. It just felt right.

Panic! for me has been an outlet for nonchalant chaos. It gives me full ride to fulfill this dream that anything is possible because of this band.

For the score of 'Black Panther,' the heart and soul came from immersing myself in the rich musical history of the griots in West Africa. I was following these brilliant musicians all over rural Senegal, learning their musical language.

When I'm not on tour, my band have to do pantomime. I want to do big gigs to earn them money.

I think leather pants are just better than jeans onstage; they give the performance a nice attitude, and they are also shockingly comfortable. Comfort is key.

Too many rockers put on the leather pants and shirt first. But if you write good songs, the pants and shirt will follow.

I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.

The same kids listening to Papa Roach will listen to an Xzibit CD.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.

I'll hear a beat and think, 'How can I make this a banger?' I'll write the lyrics on my phone or on a piece of paper, and either way, it's going to be a slapper.

Rock bands were never newsworthy. In the '60s and '70s, rock bands weren't in the newspapers because they weren't considered mainstream; they wouldn't sell papers.