Quotes About Music

What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

I was thinking about how a playlist is really so inadequate as opposed to a mixtape because it takes seventeen days to really make a mixtape with a homemade cover that you like and that you'd give away.

Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.

We're not trying to be a mega-pop-band, but we also wouldn't be opposed to selling millions of records, either.

A lot of other people have used the talk box but have used it as a sound as opposed to actually making the guitar enunciate words.

I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.

People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.

Growing up, I always considered the Grand Ole Opry to be hallowed ground.

I got to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, which is just so amazing. That stage is iconic; it was awesome being on it.

When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first grader, I was gonna be a guitar picker on the 'Grand Ole Opry.' I just had it in my head that that's what I wanted to do, having no idea how it was done.

Being a member of the Grand Ole Opry and headlining a tour would be our two things that we'd love to accomplish at some point.

I've played the Opry before.

Growing up, the Opry was my Hollywood.

My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.

What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.

The Grand Ole Opry is an artist, and I am proud to be one of its songs.

My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.

I remember as a little kid watching the Opry from the nosebleeds, so to stand onstage and be invited to be a member was really, really cool.

I want to play the Grand Ole Opry for sure. And I want to meet and play with people like Emmylou Harris and Vince Gill.

My dream is to sing at the Grand Ole Opry.

The Opry is about sharing.