Quotes About Music

I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I'm very lucky man.

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

Men who listen to classical music tend not to spit.

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me

I'm playing second fiddle to Justin Bieber - Bieber Fever is sweeping our house, and my girls have made it clear I'm no longer their favourite man.

I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.

And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.

I've never liked what's meant to be cool. I was asked to do Glastonbury the year before last actually, but I couldn't make it. I would have liked to, but I'm not really a festival man.

Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.

Without a song the day would never end Without a song the road would never bend When things go wrong a man ain't got a friend Without a song

I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

I'd be worried if I was put in the same category as Michael Bubl I'm trying to sound like a young man, for starters.

I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.

As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.

Im a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you.