Quotes About Music

I don't work at night. I'm not very good about working at night. I get tired during the day and I usually like to save my nights to try things out recording.

When I have a lot of work to do my life is very distracted, so for me to concentrate on music I need to create a structure where I can focus better.

When you stop worrying about all the things that can go along with playing in a band and you let go and do it because it's fun to do, things seem to work.

I'd like to work with Outkast, I'd like to work with RZA, I'd like to work with Timbaland, York, a whole bunch of people.

I've been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it'd be awesome to work with him. He's really kind, and he's been really encouraging when we've met.

Everyone's different, but it was fun for me to work with Garth Hudson. He's from 'The Band.' They are a massive influence, that was a big thrill. He's completely out of his mind.

Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.

If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.

I'm trying to find a way to make music work as a living. People used to make their living selling albums. Those days are over! It's kind of an odd time. I guess it's kind of like writing.

Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music.

I really want to work with Adele, I think she's amazing. Lykke Li as well. I love them both. I'd also like to work with The Script. I met them in Australia and we just got on like a house on fire.

I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.

I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.

I had the chance to work with Michael Jackson who was as brilliant as they come.

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.

John was great to work with, and a lot of fun. I wish Id had the chance to make more music with him, of course, and to get to know him better.

Maroon 5 is crazy to me, I would love to work with them.

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

It's hard to start and think about having balance. Music is a tough industry, and you have to work your way to that luxury.

I think that within the world of music that we work in, which is so not perfect, I think that you really do have to learn to accept your own mistakes as part of the beauty of music itself.

That's one of the main things I do, work with choreographers. I've been doing it a long time, and it's a real important part of my life as a soundmaker, making music for dance.