Quotes About Music

I want all that dirt and grime and life-sauce. A lot of my favorite old soul records have it, but you don't hear it on country records anymore.

Passion: It's what separates a singer from an entertainer. I hope I have passion for my music, my family, and my friends until they start shoveling dirt on my face.

Most companies that are successful listen to people and see what they want and they make that. So when I used to make songs, I'd make mixtapes. The public would tell me what they like and then I would make songs based on what they like. That's how I knew 'Ridin' Dirty' was going to be big - they told me they liked this kind of music.

Anyone that thinks 'pop' is a dirty word is living in the '90s.

Music as a business is a dirty thing.

I made, like, five records as Dirty Projectors before I got out of college. And then I put a band together when I got interested in going on tour around that time.

Pop's not a dirty word to me.

The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

When I sing songs, I love to put emotion into it. I want people to feel what I feel and just disappear for a moment.

I don't have religion or culture. I don't have anything I can believe in when I'm really scared. When I play the songs, I feel the fear disappear.

People make assumptions about me based on my music. I've literally had people stop me in the street: 'You are so sweet. I bet you haven't had a bad thought in your whole life!' I'm like, 'Really? I hate to disappoint you!'

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

It is disappointing to find that music in Malayalam cinema is drifting away from its strong melody-base.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

All my life, I never gave up on music and though there was a lot of disappointment for some that the commercial thing never happened, it has never been a disappointment for me.

I had also done a little disc jockeying.

I'm an old Coltrane disciple just like I'm a Christian.

My father taught me to play the sitar when I was seven years old. He and his elder disciples oversaw my teaching from the beginning, looking after my scale work, the poor things.

I have discipline; I look after my voice.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

The thing is that I'm naturally curious about a lot of different disciplines in music, and I enjoy doing them. And as long as people are nice enough to let me, I'll keep on trying.

I've never been to a disco in my life.

I wouldn't be caught dead in a disco.