Quotes About Music

I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school. I could hear different stories - the story that they would tell in school, and then the story that I would hear in the music.

Everybody likes music. And rock 'n' roll - that was the music that brought white youth and black youth together for the first time in American music history.

American music culture is black culture.

I don't think there is much American music.

It's amazing how English music manages to travel to America and obviously, American music in the U.K. is massive.

And in Amsterdam, you learn that a night out dancing is good for the soul.

I liked Amy Winehouse a lot. I liked the way she did what she wanted, and she wasn't fazed about the press being on her back. I loved her songs so much.

I go to The Brit School, which is where Adele, Amy Winehouse, and Jessie J went.

I just loved Amy Winehouse. I would rather have managed her than anybody in the world. To me, it was like the first time I saw Janis Joplin.

The message from 'Analog Man' is that I'm back, and it won't be 20 years until the next album.

I always liked American Analog Set.

I know what my fans have wanted from me this whole time. 'Bad For You' and 'Anarchy' is me finally giving it to them.

Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.

The most calmest place I can be is the studio. And like, I stay in there 'cause I know, when I come out, it's back to reality. Man, if you're angry all day, man, stay in the studio.

As long as I could sing my songs, I wasn't as angry about what had happened, about being shoved back for this or shoved back for the other.

It's amazing to me how often the answer to making something sound better is to play something less.

I'm not answering questions with my songs.

'Freebird' is an anthem, and 'Simple Man' is a very nice song.

If you asked me to make a Gaslight Anthem album on my own, I would say, 'No way, that's crazy.' I would never have been able to do that.

We've gotten better as a live band. The songs have been allowed to grow with our audience. I don't think I would have done it any other way.

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

Anybody that doesn't like Cardi B a hater!

I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'm not manipulating my sound to be like anybody or trying to write to sound like anybody else.

I like to think I was just lucky. I didn't think I was better than anybody else, but I could sing everybody's songs.