Quotes About Music

Laura Marling is Joni Mitchell-level for me.

I have a band called Sons of the Lawless.

As far as I know, no money ever won in a lawsuit by IFPI or the RIAA has even gone to any actual artist.

My passion for music lay dormant during my football career and now I can explore it.

The layers you get in graffiti, the ornateness, you can hear it in my music. I paint with my music. It's a form of synaesthesia.

If I'm not on tour, then I'm sometimes laying down four or five records at a time.

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

My dad was lead singer of the Tremeloes and he gave me advice.

There's no such thing as a lead singer in our band.

Sweet Leaf' is a very aggressive song when we do it live.

I was feeling 'Lean & Bop' in the moment. It's brought me the most money. And when I'm doing shows, it goes off.

I have a lot of kurtas and Rajasthani-patterned clothes. So I really wanted to do something with an Indian flavour. Shooting the video for 'Lean On' was like a dream come true for me.

I always liked performing. I learnt to sing, play the piano and dance. I was good at academics too but I was interested in extra-curricular activities. My parents encouraged me.

I learnt everything to do with music in my own time.

My mother learnt Mohiniyattam as a child, and my father loved singing.

Song-writing in general, and vocally I've learnt a lot about myself. I want to get better and keep learning.

And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go.

Like most classic bands, we only do an album every three or four years but that leaves a lot of down-time. And I don't like down time.

I would put LeBron on a track.

I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.

I never left doo wop.

I wanted to establish my musical legacy and honor the classic sound of flamenco in the most traditional sense.

I want people to remember ABBA as we were. I don't think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage is what we should leave as our legacy.

It leaves a good legacy to have five records.