Quotes About Music

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

I feel at home in an orchestral score.

I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.

I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.

When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the greatest Christmas song he ever heard, and he wanted me to be on his show to sing it.

What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool.

As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And when I come home, you can find Rebirth band playing for a birthday party the same day.

'Black Hole Sun' was written in a car when I was driving home from the studio one night. Pretty much everything that you hear was written in my head.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor the players liked the finale, which I also think rather horrible.

My balls feel like a pair of maracas.

Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

I've never been - I don't think I'm, like, a great A&R, by any means. I don't even know production lingo, in all honesty.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.

In all honesty, we never tried to get the number-one song anywhere anyway.

I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.

I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story.

I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.