Quotes About Music

It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage or a house show.

I'm like a child with musical ADD.

I was addicted to playing music.

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

When we were starting out as a band, I was addicted to college radio.

I don't ever go and write music for an album. That's not something I do. I don't go and write music for an audience or a career; I don't do that at all. I write basically all the time. I'm addicted to it.

If I admire someone's music, I'll walk up to 'em and tell 'em.

There is no other artist who I admire and love as much as I love Bjork.

A lot of girls come to our shows, and a lot of them are freaking adorable and want to learn how to play guitar.

I adore 'The Chipmunks.'

A boy I adored when I was 19 gave me the 'Emigrante' album by Orishas. Definitely not my normal taste, but I still kind of love it.

When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be in a band - that was the path to girls, adulation, money.

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

I would advise anyone starting out as a singer/songwriter to play live as much possible. You never know who might be in the audience.

The only regular exercise I do is playing my shows, which are basically two hours of aerobics.

The exciting thing about Bleachers and fun. are they're different, and they're aesthetically different in many ways. But it's also like my role is very different, and that's cool.

Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.

It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.

In my mind, I'm still that kid who gets affected by other people's music.

Music is real. It affects people; it's real.

I know how music makes me feel; I know how it affects my life.

I knew that I couldn't afford to go wrong with the music of 'Karzzz.'

I was excited when the Afghan Whigs got back together.

I don't make records so I can sit down afterward and listen to them. I make them so other people can sit down and listen to them.