Quotes About Music

I went back and reread the Dinosaur chapter in 'Our Band Could Be Your Life,' and it was so depressing.

Coming back to Dinosaur Jr. and actually writing songs for the band was really intense for me.

One thing about when I came back into Dinosaur that was really cool was that pretty much anybody that J. was working with who had a long-term relationship with J. were people I really liked and that I actually may have already known.

We have been called old rockers, rock pensioners, and dinosaurs.

Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

I really got deep into downloading music when I moved to the South and got a computer. So I was downloading the The Diplomats, AZ, Half-A-Mil, 40 Cal.

I was in dire need of a band that was serious about getting out of El Paso.

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

ABBA was a direct influence on me.

I directed my music to the teen-agers. I was 30 years old when I did 'Maybellene.' My school days had long been over when I did 'School Day,' but I was thinking of them.

I've directed fragmentarily at the Herod Atticus, but never before a popular laiko unitals concert.

My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't mean to say I don't secretly really love some of our songs, which I do.

I have not thought of pairing with somebody for music direction and will continue composing music by myself.

Zayn's good to just sit down and chat to about pretty much anything. At the end of the night, we just sit around and talk about our life before One Direction, or anything at all, really.

My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.

Working with Bob Weir directly, we learned how high the bar is for Dead music.

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both words and music.

Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves.

When you go pick out my album, the money actually comes to me and my company directly.

I think my music is a way of communicating very directly with people and with people's emotions. I try to make music that doesn't need layers of complexity or obfuscation to speak to people.

There is no way I'll ever write an album for Avril Lavigne or Christina Aguilera. I just couldn't do it. There is no way I could ever do it because my musical process is about being directly involved with whatever I'm going through in life.

A lot of what's happened with my career has been because of the Internet. It's a way for me to reach fans directly, especially with music.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.