Quotes About Music

We look at our albums as stand-alone pieces of art and also as adverts for our live shows.

But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live.

Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.

I worked with Carl Perkins on a number of shows. Live shows. He just showed up and played. He just killed. Killed! Man... he was amazing!

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

Enter Shikari are a mash-up of everything. I used to really love dubstep when they first came out. They had those amazing basslines, so I loved going to the live shows.

There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.

Live shows are really big for me. I want to do as many of those as I can.

I love to perform. I love live shows.

I had to sing. I couldn't not sing. If it was singing to a living room full of people or an auditorium, it didn't matter. I had to sing. I was meant to sing.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

When I sing with Loaded, I can't move at all. I'm playing guitar, and I'm singing.

I'd rather go to school and do loads of music than anything else.

I did loads of sessions with Andrew Oldham.

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone.

I listen to loads of different music all the time.

We really wanted to be rock 'n' roll, so we became rock 'n' roll, and really good at it, but you pick up loads of layers and you completely forget who you are and what you are.

I always like to get local music when I'm in another country.

The music before the game, they're playing old-school music and it's right above your locker room and you're like, 'These people are crazy, man. This is pretty cool.' I'm sure it has an effect, but after a few minutes, it's just basketball.

No I.D. executive-produced 'Under Pressure' and helped me find the Logic sound that's evolving every day.

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

It gets lonely. I miss my family on stage. This might change one day. I'm certainly not going to say I'm not going to work with them again.

When you have music in your life, you can never be lonely.

I think people come to my music just to feel less lonely.