Quotes About Music

The older I've gotten, the more I've gotten a little precious about music-related films as it comes to biopics. I kind of don't want to see it; I'd rather see a documentary. And this is just coming from me. I love music documentaries; I kind of don't want to see people embodying those people.

You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.

Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.

I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive journey for me.

I think I went to 67 'Grateful Dead' shows. I'm the only 'Deadhead' who doesn't know the precise number, and it's totally humiliating.

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.

The Fender Precision is my instrument, my beloved Precisions.

I've tried lots of different guitars, including some Lados, and they felt great and were really well made, but the sound just seemed to lack richness in the bottom end. My main Precision is a '71, and I also have a '59 that I don't use very often.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

We have incredible record labels in Australia, but sometimes they have a preconceived idea of how to do things.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you'll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.

So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre.

I have no preconceived ideas; I gave that up a long time ago... The only thing we can do as musicians is make an album we like, and an album that we consider to be incredibly good.

I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is.

If there was just music without any genres, then people would look at a lot of things afresh, and approach a record without any preconceptions.

I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I want the first impression to be the music.

I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.

We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist.

Hip-hop has had this history where the predecessor just is so harsh and not nice to the next coming generation that it creates this separation and this gap.

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

I never want to predict the relationship between music and advertising.

You can never predict a hit.