Quotes About Music

New Orleans just embraces people who love music.

New Orleans is great for a lot of the old-school charm and character.

I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.

I'm always honored to see my music and New Orleans Bounce make its way into mainstream culture.

New Orleans has an incredible culture. Everybody brings up food first, but I realized there's a lot more to that in terms of music and art and people and history.

I want a church service with New Orleans funeral jazz music. I'd like people to say a few words about me and I may have my ashes scattered in the sea.

There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar; I would love to get nominated again.

My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for 'The Social Network.'

When my friends were listening to hip-hop or R&B, I was in the crib listening to Billy Joel and Michael Bolton, Luther Vandross, and Oscar Peterson.

Jazz doesn't have much to do with how I write songs, but I am a big fan. My favorites are Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, and Mose Allison.

It's not about what's a good or bad score at the Oscars, rather what's exposed to the ears more.

The success of Indian music at the Oscars is a great achievement.

My biggest inspiration was the music of Slumdog Millionaire.' The music that Rahman tried had such an Indian sound, but that didn't stop it from winning two Oscars.

I feel so honored that I'm bringing part of the culture of my country to other countries, you know, like the funk music.

Music. It has always showed me that I could do what the other kids couldn't do. So I will keep playing and singing and entertaining, as long as the good Lord lets me. That is my life.

The other kids wanted to play Destiny's Child, but I wanted Anita O'Day.

I feel like I had as normal a childhood as anyone, but it had a certain focus. Maybe other kids focused on sports.

I feel blessed that I got an opportunity to work with the likes of A. R. Rahman, Vishal-Shekhar among others.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.

Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise.

I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.