Quotes About Music

If Brian Eno wanted to make a record, I'd definitely clear some time in my calendar. John Cale, too. Those guys consistently make great records, always doing their own thing.

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

It really comes down to Mick. He's the one who was constantly trying to get these five people in one room together. This is his love, his baby. It's his band, and there's nothing more he loves to do than get up on stage and play with us.

Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged.

We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

The constructive criticism that I take very seriously is from people I know and respect, and they don't have to be musicians. But I do have to know where they're coming from.

I consume music the way other people consume movies.

This exploded in me almost more music than I could consume.

In order to continue the growth, we have to go back to embracing technology and the way that people choose to consume music.

There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.

Basically, my life was music, and I was always consumed by it.

I'm involved in all things musical. It's all consuming, even if it doesn't necessarily manifest as a record or a concert.

Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.

People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed for public consumption.

I try to do a lot of direct contact with the audience, because the audience is part of the concert, too, as much as anyone on stage, and it's a shame not to get to meet them if you get the chance.

I rarely have any contact with the artists who cover my songs.

Music is contagious and everywhere and democratic, and that's what drew me in. I was interested in acting and being a director, but one of the things that bored me about theatre was that it was not accessible to everyone.

I feel like the first album contained a lot of personal songs, like 'The Foundation' or 'Carry the Weight.'

I'm very proud of it. 'Hunchback' contains some of my favorite music I've ever written in my life.

Music is quite an enigma because it is many things together, and it is one whole body. Like a nucleus, it contains every idea, but the basic stand is the same.

Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize.

I don't think anybody does contemporary R&B albums better than me.

I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.