Quotes About Music

Albums are a journey, and I even find that as a DJ, with less than two hours, I can barely communicate anything. So I like to play long sets.

Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.

During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.

Sure, I love people, and I want to communicate with people. I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

I was growing up in a communist time, especially, and the other music, the western music, was banned, so on radio half of the music was Chopin. So my colleagues and I were a little bit allergic to this music because it was everywhere - everywhere!

Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.

I feel like the Roses were a great group, but I never wanted to try to do it again. I knew I couldn't get a band that would compare to the Roses, that would have an impact like the Roses.

You can't compare Lata Mangeshkar with anyone.

Compared to EDM, I feel like there are a lot of girls at my shows.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

Bob Dylan is great. I've been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a guitar they just think, 'Bob Dylan!'

I don't mind Ed Sheeran, but I wouldn't want to be compared to a guy that builds his song around a guitar, since we do not have a guitar in our band.

I've been compared to Drake before and Kid Cudi.

I been compared a lot to Brockhampton a lot.

Rakim is a great lyricist. To me, it was always beautiful to be compared to him.

My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.

There's nothing that compares to actually being in a room and having that sense of collective experience, feeling the music in your body and having all these people around you.

The New Lost City Ramblers are a very good comparison, actually. They really took the music seriously, and we take the music very seriously. But we don't take ourselves seriously at all.

When I was first coming out, I was definitely getting a lot of comparisons to Trina.

If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

I actually grew up seeing a lot of classical theater - a lot of Shakespeare - but I have such a passion for music and find that way of telling a story to be really compelling as well.

I knew I was a good singer - I've been singing my whole life, so I was comfortable enough with that - I felt like I could compensate with not being great on guitar.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.