Quotes About Music

I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B I got into some Good God gospel compilations.

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

I used to play bass for a while and got to the point where I was good enough to be in a shitty band.

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.

I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.

What makes me feel good is that after all these years, the ideas that Joe Perry came up with worked and all the kids loved it.

I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to die today!' with our music playing - that was the last thing on my mind when I wrote the song.

What's really good is African drum music.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

When my woman kisses me I start dancing like James Brown. Ow! I Feel Good!

I'm happy. I feel good about music.

The Jonas Brothers are all sweet. They're so amazing to me. They've become really good friends of mine, but I'm not dating any of them.

I started a band [Big Japan] for fun. These sticks break easily, but they feel good.

Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.

There will be no new music until it's good enough and until I'm ready.

It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

I'll take my iPod - though I'm not very good with gadgets to be honest - and that has everything I like.

I've learned after doing a couple records that if it feels good and it's easy, then that's usually a good sign. And that feeling sorta went with us to Nashville - everything was just natural.