Quotes About Music

I had what can only be described as the worst voice in the history of music.

I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.

Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.

Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.

When I'm on stage I feel at home

One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

Just being at home, growing up naturally, and being here now with my video and my music, I think people realize that I was in the Spice Girls 8 years ago.

Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.

One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.

The Black Parade has to go home soon, so you're gonna be stuck with My Chemical Romance. I'm sorry. That singer has a despicable mouth, he dresses funny, and he can't sing!

I'm always in range of a microphone. I even have a studio at home.

There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.

But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.

Wayne's cool. I ran into him at my hangout back home, and he's just cool. I actually have this beat that I want him on, but I was too scared to get it to Clancy to get to them, but Wayne's cool.

It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.

Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Tuborg. My brother would go out to party and get laid, come home at 3am., and I would still be playing with myself.