Quotes About Music

I think when I first started out making music here in Los Angeles, a lot of people were really curious about my ethnicity, and you know, whatever questions they had, I'd be more than happy to answer them.

I am a very curious person, not just about my life in music. I love arts and creativity.

No. 1 records are fine, but in 2016, they just don't mean as much any more - the currency has changed.

I still want to make a pop record. I want to make a more sonically current pop record. I maybe want to make people move a little bit more.

We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records.

One of the things that I love about Sarah Vaughan is that she was always very current.

I don't tend to be current with anything. I just write the music and allow it to just be whatever it is.

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

Currently, I work as an actor, but I still love music.

I don't think you're selling out by allowing the masses to love your art. The only curse is that, when you get so big, sometimes people forget to look at the music.

Anybody can curse on a record.

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music.

I don't look at certain things on TV anymore. I don't listen to certain music anymore. I make sure my kids don't listen to it. It's funny because back in the days I could look at comedy shows and all kind of stuff and you didn't even realize how much cursing it had in it.

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

You shouldn't take a customer who's buying an album, who's happy buying an album, and try to tell them that what they're doing is wrong.

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

I'm not some cute guy who is trying to be successful off that. I really want the music to come first.

I think all of The Beatles were from an era when certainly playing was important to them, and they were cutting edge. But for all time, they're master composers.

I'd been working on new Slipknot material since the end of the 'All Hope Is Gone' tour cycle, but I ended up with so much stuff, I had to take a step back and stop working on it.

It was really difficult to tour on 'Psychopomp' for a year and do the press cycle and talk to people three or four times a day about my mom dying.

Music is cyclical, but I've never thought of the music I make as being so off the wall or left field that it wouldn't always have an audience that would relate to it.

I was done with music and I became very cynical about the industry and Top 40 radio. I didn't even want to look at music for a while, and did a course in screen-writing.

The use of music in 'Gloria' is not cynical.