Quotes About Music

Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

I started to hallucinate and hear voices as clear as crystal. I heard my family in a casual familial conversation I heard Koran readings in a heavenly voice. I heard music from my country. Later on the guards used these hallucinations and started talking with funny voices through the plumbing, encouraging me to hurt the guard and plot an escape.

There's this new band that just started with us called the Dave Matthews Band. My God! I mean, I like those guys. Plus, Dave Matthews looks just like Forrest Gump.

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.

As a child brought up in Paris, I dreamed of America, that lost world my parents had left behind - it was in my genes. Plus, American music has always been close to my own aesthetic, because of the mix of symphonic music with jazz.

I play in a band called 'Moi non plus' with some friends.

Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.

I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think I've worked out why this is - unsociable hours, plus general creativity.

The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.

The Sex Pistols had it all - they had the snarl, they had the I-don't-give-a-crap attitude - plus, they could play.

I'd like to produce something with Kanye. Like, my production plus his, I think he'd make something really cool.

When I have 7,000 people plus at Red Rock just for a show of mine, I think it's wonderful to get that many people to come see you.

Writing is a grueling process for us, and once we finish an album, we go on tour for a couple of years. Plus, we're always very involved in our own business, so we need a break when we come back.

I'm pretty into music. Anything with music I love... I'm really big on lyrical content plus a good beat.

Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we're going to space, baby.

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

I was very into New Order, Joy Division, all of that when I was younger. I had a lot of bootlegs that I saved up my pocket money to buy. I had all the obscure early EPs.

If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.

I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.

You get this really cool groove when you're playing just piano, bass, and drums where everyone's sort of feeling each other's space, which is the only way to put it, but it really is true, and everyone's sort of sitting in their own pocket. It's kind of jazz-like.

I saved up my pocket money when I was about five or six years old. I just wanted to buy a CD, and at that age, I didn't care about what it was, and I ended up buying 'The Teletubbies Say 'Eh-Oh!'' I started off strong.

I have a little pocket journal. I just put the pen on the paper and just go.

When you can touch the spirit, whatever that is, and when you can feel the love, and you can feel the song is cooking and it's in the pocket, you know, everybody knows that's the one that's grooving.

I play citified Count Basie piano. As few notes as possible, my left hand in my pocket, that kind of stuff.