Quotes About Music

Between my mom and dad, I would hear a lot of Earth, Wind, and Fire. My mom loved Chaka Khan, so that was on in the car a lot.

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

I am my father's son. My sticking to my guns and doing it my way, and standing firm - that's definitely from him. And the music side, I was so lucky to have a dad that was as cool as he was.

My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene.

Dad always says that I could sing before I could talk

Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.

We're going to listen music in my room.' 'Fine,' his dad said from underneath the sink. 'Just don't get anybody pregnant.

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.

The one thing I worry about with that is whether or not we're edgy enough for the young kids. You know, does a 20-year-old like the fact that he can play it for his dad? Is that cool?

I don't date rock 'n' rollers. I just marry them.

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

Drive-in, you guzzle gin, commit a little mortal sin.

I've discreetly dated a lot of people - I once dated a billionaire, mostly because it was fun to say, "I'm dating a billionaire," but we did not have the same taste in music, and it was doomed.

I was down in the sewer with some little lover.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death.

I shall hear in heaven.

The death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize.

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.

I think beating someone to death with a ukulele would just sound funny.

For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.