Quotes About Music

Today, if you were to look at my CD collection, it might scare some people.

When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.

I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.

I had a good start. I did a record with Beyonce. I did a record with Lenny Kravitz. I put out my second collection of music and then my second collection of clothes.

My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.

Believe it or not, I loved acid rock in college - and I still do.

I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.

I must say I personally prefer the FC Cologne anthem over the Liverpool one.

Colombia changed the way I write and sing.

Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.

I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!

I'm all about colors.

I love colors, but I also love rich sounds. And I feel like when it comes to colored ukuleles, people assume they're cheap or that they'll have a tinny sound. And I feel like it would be really beautiful to have a rich color but also to have a rich sound.

There are a lot of songs that, you know, just get me excited because they create a certain, I guess, set of colors in my head.

Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.

The 'Colours Of My Life' album is literally a 50-year retrospective.

It's not like I see colours. It's just, for me, an incredibly strong association between music and colour.

People would always ask me how I came up with my music and what it felt like to make music, and I would always see colours, and then I found out that that was synaesthesia. It helps me understand songs and what I like.

I've always seen music as colours, with basses maybe translating to dark blues, and trebles as yellows and ochres and a general sense of lights coming through.

We were definitely new to the whole music thing. The first album was a real collaborative effort between us, the writers, and the A&R people at Columbia Records. We really worked to find out what our sound was.

You do movies because you love movies and you write music because you love writing music, and sometimes there's this magic combination.

I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.

The early parodies that talk-show people did of rock n' roll in the '50s were terrible. They didn't know it, they didn't like it - and that's a lethal combination.

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.