Quotes About Music

Something about cactuses and rock music is a good combination.

My music is very reminiscent of the sound I grew up on and the place where that happened. It's a combination of everything I'm inspired by.

Steeler was a good start for my career. They didn't play anything dangerous - everything was formulaic - but I played all this crazy stuff on top of it, and that turned out to be an interesting combination. But by the time 'Steeler' came out, I was already out of the band.

If you take care of the music first, and then add elements of a good show, then it makes for a good combination.

Usually, my sets are a combination of what I love, what everyone loves; some classics, some new stuff and a couple of exclusives here and there.

For a love story, basic emotion should be there, you need a combination of everything. Good chemistry between the actors, music, script. If even one of them is not in place, the magic will not be there.

Basically, great directors know how to combine music with the scenes that they are working on.

I think my album, 'United We Are,' was the perfect blend or radio- and festival-friendly songs. I try to combine both.

I was thinking of doing some exhibitions where I combine tennis and music. I might have a show at, say, the Staples Center, where I might play an exhibition against somebody who would be interesting, then take a break and go do a show.

I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It's funny at the same time as it's sad.

It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

People say, 'When are you making this comeback?' I say, 'It's not a comeback, it's a record.' They say, 'Where have you been all these years?' I say, 'I've been making records.'

I take my music very serious. I don't call myself a comedian.

I've often been told that if music doesn't work out I could be a comedian.

Sometimes I look at music as like movies. And so I feel like you can have your comedies, and you can have your dramas, and you can have your romances or whatever.

Music has the ability to comfort people.

People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't do without it in some sense.

The sound of the piano is always something that is a real kind of comfort food to me.

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

I haven't found music comforting since the '80s, but it doesn't mean it's not good - it just doesn't work for me. It's shocking to me because music was my religion from the age of 11, and it's like I don't believe in my god any more.

Teachers want to teach you theory, and that's fine, but when it comes to rock and roll, you only need three chords. There's something comforting about that.

I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.

It really is a dream coming true, being on Billboard.

A guy wrote a blog, way back when the Internet first started; the comments were so negative that it actually stopped me doing music for some time - about two, three years. It was after this one hip-hop project - Redfoo and Dr'Kroon. I wasn't used to it. I didn't like it. It lowered my self-esteem.