Quotes About Music

If a song I'm lucky enough to be a part of comes on the radio, it's definitely really cool and exciting, but I can't focus on anything but the song. Same if one of my songs comes on in a restaurant. I can't just carry on a conversation.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

When you start reading a piece together, you get a sense of someone's basic philosophy of music without saying a word. You realize the other person's approach, how they express themselves, the kind of restraint they show, all those things.

What I saw in the record industry is it's just getting more restricted, more restricted, more restricted to where everyone's trying to figure out what kind of song to make to get on the radio: that's researched and where advertisers are telling you what to play.

I worked in retail for a bit and then I busked for two years. As soon as I started, I thought, 'I'll do busking until I'm 50 because this is the best job in the world.'

Calcutta is a very culturally-forward city. People encourage art, music, literature and I just feel like that's a city that looks for experiences over just retail.

The day I write a totally happy song... I'll retire.

I wouldn't know how to retire.

I'll never retire.

AC/DC will never retire; Angus will never retire.

I want to be a mom. It's something that when I do have kids, I think I will retire from making music for a while.

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.'

I just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that's what I'm going to do because that's the most fun thing that I know how to do.

People are gonna listen to the music whether or not I reveal myself.

My favorite song is 'Cybele's Reverie' by Stereolab.

Time in our universe is always one way: no going back, no reverse. In music, you can reverse it!

I actually hate lyrics, and I hate it when they're quoted in reviews. I don't think they matter that much; it's the sounds of words - not the words - that I look for.

Young bands are so angry. There are young bands that are so incredibly successful, getting incredible reviews, and they are totally angry.

At the end of the day, I would love for the artists that I give positive reviews to to continue coming out with music. That's ultimately what I want as a fan.

I don't see us as being part of that 90s revival. We were always a band, even when we weren't playing together.

Man, I would have loved to have been fully cognisant of the power of Janis Joplin. I would have loved to have been part of the revolution.

Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through.

My life revolves around music.