Quotes About Music

If I'm trying to get into character and it's an emotional scene, I'll listen to depressing or really sad music.

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

We've made a lot of party music; we're definitely not Thom Yorke. But there's also depth to our records; we get emotional.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

When I got out of the Nazz, I had it in my mind that simply to be eclectic was an important aspect of making music. It was something that I derived from The Beatles.

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.

I would describe my sound in the field of electro pop. A combination of deep yet simple lyrics coupled with easy beats.

I think it's really hard to describe music without alienating somebody.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.

Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.

I don't really know how to describe how I got into music - it kind of just happened.

I love truly forward-thinking music, and I'm not even sure I'd describe my work as that, even.

I describe my own music as epic love pop.

Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.

There are so many good, young bands out there who aren't getting the attention they deserve.

If you think you can sing, you can sing; that's all that matters. So I'm always singing around my guys, around the team, during warm-ups, because I think people need to hear this voice. I think they deserve it.

Westlife never got the credit they deserved.

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

Like David Bowie, Madonna visualizes music so that her best work seems equally designed with the stage or screen in mind - not just the jukebox.

I don't look at myself as a designer; I'm focused on music.

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.