Quotes About Music

I'm not comfortable doing a covers album.

I always sang Leona Lewis covers, and if you know her songs, she's not just singing your average easy song; she's going off the majority of the time.

I love doing covers.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.

I actually have a kind of fantasy about doing a covers album in general. My music taste is so eclectic, that I think it would be cool to put it through the funnel of my arrangements.

Some bands don't do covers. I love music. I've done the '40s, the '50s, 'the '60s, the '70s, the '80s, the '90s, the '00s, and I'm working on the '10s.

When I was in Baltimore, I played in several different bands, doing four sets a night, two sets of originals, two sets of covers, that kind of thing.

The thing about doing mashups and covers is it's great, but a part of you never gets to really showcase what your original sound is like or what your writing voice is like.

We didn't understand why it should be obligatory to be on the covers of magazines as yourself when you are making music and are not a showman.

I started in a covers band with my brothers when I was just four years old.

'Airlift' changed a lot of things for me. It is a difficult film to make hit songs. So when I was able to crack that, I felt nice.

Yes, I've been down the pike and back. And through the years, I've heard different songs with scatting in it, and it was - always cracked me up as kind of a funny style of music, you know? When I did it, it kind of cracked me up as a comedy kind of routine.

I don't even listen to peoples' music... I'm really in-tune with my craft, I listen to me all day long.

That's one of the reasons I got into country music: because of the craft of that lyric and how much you could put into three minutes.

The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

I say funny stuff in my songs sometimes, but it's still all in the seriousness of the music and the craft.

What I want people to take away from my music is that it's important to listen. Especially for young people, your opinion is the one that counts the most when it comes to your craft.

This job forces you to ask yourself so many questions: Do you want money? Do you want power? Do you just want to be good at your craft? I don't know what I'm doing. I just want to be happy. But I know I have to keep making music.

I probably learned most of my craft from singing to the radio.

I be on some, perfecting my craft, just making sure the music is all the way there.

I honed my craft in the military, because it's the only thing that got me through it, to be honest. Working on music - being able to come home and work on music whenever I got off - was essential. If I didn't have that, I probably would've lost my mind.

We want to be good at our craft, whether it's writing music or playing it live.

I love well-produced stuff. The craft and the art of production is something I really, really love.

Whether I'm working with a Top 40 artist or crafting my own music, it goes back to one thing: telling a powerful story and having that story resonate with people.