Quotes About Music

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

My style when I was 17 was very low-key with jeans, T-shirts, and Converse. I was signed to a major record label by then, so I had stylists helping me.

I love the '40s. I love the '50s. I love the style, I love the clothes. I love how the women looked. I love the dances. I love the music. I love the amber of the light. I'm just in love with the cars. I'm in love with all of it.

I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football.

I'm really not the biggest metal fan as it is. I'm more of a hard-street-punk kind of kid, but I also loved hip hop and reggae music, so we have always sort of refused a street style that is something that we are used to. Something that makes us comfortable and sounds good to us.

I have damaged nerve endings on the right side, so my piano style comes from designing stuff I can play with my right hand. And some of it effectively mimics classical stuff.

My style is a part of my music. You can't be an artist and not put any thought or effort into the way you appear.

Every time I bought someone's album, it was about the connection. I was loving everything, from their raps to their style. I wanted to meet them.

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.

I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were something I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers. Something that would be me.

When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out and connect with you. Great songs connect beyond genre and style.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

When we started, I was just having fun with it I didn't even know about doing it for a living. It was a new style of music, a combo of punk and metal.

I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.

I'm a big fan of Die Antwoord, which is a different style than I normally listen to.

I started with very tonal 19th-century music because I wanted to be a violinist as a child. So this was my first music, and then I was very much influenced by Stravinsky and Shostakovich in the 1950s. But I was starting to develop my own style.

I like Bejoy's style of movie making, and the music is always so good in all his movies.

The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.

Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.

I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll.

I want to do everything related to music. Every genre, every style I want to compose.

I'm just a Harlem dude that can rap, and people dig my style and persona.

Our style of hip-hop, our style of beats, our style of rhymes - you gonna give us burn. We gonna get our burn that we deserve.