Quotes About Music

I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.

Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.

We all listen to a lot of eclectic things.

If you can have Ed Sheeran on your record, you may as well.

I love pop songs. One that I've heard a lot is 'Shape of You' by Ed Sheeran. I also love mariachi songs by Alejandro Fernandez and Vicente Fernandez.

I really like Ed Sheeran.

I would love to do a duet with Gavin Degraw. Or Ed Sheeran.

I thing Ed Sheeran is fantastic.

Eddie Vedder? My God, there's a singer.

I love The Edge's guitar style; it is unique. There is an ancient world resonating in his guitar sound.

A crunk attitude you're just rowdy, rahhhhh! You're just crunk. But you add the crunk rock to it, and it gives you some edge.

Everything is so computerized these days and it's all edited and everything. Everything sounds so perfect, and we just want to be a band that sounds like a band.

When I write a story or think of a scene, I always play some song in the background. Sometimes when I don't add a song at the writing stage, I do it while editing the film.

In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.

I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't really start listening to it until my 20s. My wife knows everything about music, and I try and get her to educate me, but it's just not part of my DNA.

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

The Lovemongers came together because we felt kind of overinflated by the end of the Eighties.

I think there's a way to do classic songs and produce them electronically, and I feel like the eighties did a lot of that.

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

El Paso is where I started. I don't feel like I'd be making the music I'm making now if I hadn't gone there.

I started getting RSI in my wrists and my elbow from playing really hard, so I started looping.

Most of everything I've ever written actually was written on acoustic. 'Do You Feel' was written on electric. 'I'm in You' was written on piano.