Quotes About Music

Who says I breathe music? Who says I even breathe?

When I need a little advice about Saddam Hussein, I turn to country music.

I feel like people who actually know how music works on a technical level need to explain it to the rest of us a little more often.

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.

I don't really enjoy cardio, but I find activities like cranking up the music and dancing around my house keep me energized and feeling good.

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

For me, music gives a voice to fashion.

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

I think that music at inappropriate times with inappropriate volumes can be the funniest thing ever.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.

I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that.

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

When people say, Your music was the music of the Seventies, I say, So was discoteque. The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.

I've always loved playing solo. I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music. My favorite thing is usually whatever I'm doing right there and then.

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.