Quotes About Music

I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius.

I feel like my best work is in front of me. I'm in the studio now, and I'm having an amazing time making this new album. It's something I can't help.

I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions.

I love to work with Julia [Holter] because our voices have a similar timbre, and she's very unique. She finds very avant-garde harmonies that I adore.

I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work in the department store or whatever else you did if you were a woman in those days.

I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, Id like to work with him again someday.

I would like to work with a great producer who I haven't met yet. I'm not sure who he is, but I'm looking for someone to take me to the next level.

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

I would say Lil Wayne [is the best rapper]. He's all about hard work and consistency.

I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.

I didn't want to play music because the whole family did it. I wanted to work in a cubicle. I saw Office Space as a young tween and missed the point of the movie. I was like, "This looks good!".

Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.

Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson, who is a legend.

Stevie Wonder doing 'We Can Work It Out' by the Beatles is one of my favorite records of all time.

A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing I'm interested in becoming technically proficient on is my alto saxophone.

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years was an important experience.

In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.

Do you see how Jerry Heller made it work? That is how he combined what we did to make the rap music into mass music. That's exactly how it happened.

The way I work with music is that I take on the story.