Quotes About Music

When I started doing press after college, I never got asked about my racial identity; I was asked more about being a girl in music.

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

Basically just being on the road so much and all the pressure of the Eagles eventually got to me.

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.

Pressure' is the perfect first single, it just felt right. As an artist, you have to feel it out and let it happen naturally.

I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.

With 'Under the Pressure,' I just found two chords I liked, and built it up, did like a ten-minute drum pattern.

The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'

I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.

I don't think you should feel too pressured about a mixtape. Just do what you want to do and show the music you want to show. You're not trying to win something big with it.

I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

I often find there's an equal benefit to being in a comfortable, well rested studio session, but also the more pressured headspace of being in an airport or working at 7 A.M., fresh from the club with the music still ringing in your ears.

On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.

Some collaborators might join forces in certain cities or special concerts. I'm excited to share the stage with some prestigious people that I love and respect.

It's a lot to take in to have won something as prestigious as BBC Music Sound Of.

I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I was trying to describe, but I do remember my music teacher saying to me, 'Do you have synesthesia?' In hindsight, it seems a little presumptuous of her to think a little boy in Essex would know what synesthesia was.

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

My mom bought me a guitar when I was 12 and I used to pretend that I was a rock star in my own room. I was also obsessed with Elvis as a kid.

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

I try to be a better dad and husband than I do pretend rock star.

I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.

I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are.

Companies that pretend to care about music and really care about other things - whether it be hardware, whether it be advertising - and now they look at music as a loss leader. And we know music isn't a loss leader; music is an important part of our lives.