Quotes About Music

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

Ogra?ujem se, utišavam, slušam muziku. ?udno djeluje na mene, gotovo hipnoti?no, s njom se ne sporim. Ništa joj ne mogu. Nemjerljiva je, sveobuhvatna, strašna po snazi, ne mogu da je odvojim, ne mogu da je doživljavam kao nešto izvan sebe, useljava mi se u krv, dišem njome

Crne o?i koje miruju, odaju?i život negdje unutra, kao duboka voda, lice osvijetljeno ispod kože mlije?nim svjetilj?icama, tijelo što ne zove, ve? zaprepaš?uje, postoji kao celina jer je sklad. Djeluje dirljivo lijepo. Kao muzika. Neodre?eno, a snažno, ne odvajaju?i se, okre?e nas u nas same, živi za sebe a za nas.

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

The blood of the guitar was Chuck Berry red.

In order to enter that zone we must finally let go of the embodied distances that place grants. But what does this do to what we commonly think of as the past? I think of cyberspace, which is no place at all, as akin to the dark imaginary out of which poems come, their rhythms, their discrete music punctuating the inner life.

I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.