Quotes About Music

When I try and extract what it is about my music that I do or love or try to create, I'm never aware of it at the time. I just make something.

For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.

The grapevine in England is an extraordinary thing. When there is a really brilliant young composer or soloist, we all hear about it.

When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.

There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.

It was extraordinary to experience 'Mamma Mia!' What an injection of good spirit and heart it was.

When I was younger, I did what I now call 'extreme singing.' I could do this thing where I would sing really high. I can't really do that anymore, at my age. My voice has shifted. It's changed.

When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.

I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

The communication within Sinsaenum is really, really cool. As extreme as the music is, you might not realize how much we respect each other and how much we coach each other and how well we communicate.

From the first time I played with Lester Flatt, I sensed an extreme amount of history around me.

I've been told that my voice is very distinctive. I've been told people feel extremely connected to it.

Know that I am extremely proud of all that is 'Ween.'

I think singing it when it's done well is extremely natural. It feels great.

I listen to anything country and anything classical. Two great extremes.

I have always tended toward extremism: I'm Motorhead rather than REO Speedwagon.

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

You have to make an audience experience with the ears as well as their eyes.

The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.

You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced with the artist, especially because we've been educated to think that the artist are these special creatures are otherwordly and aren't like us.

I've always been faced with all kinds of criticism. People were saying, 'Oh, Shaggy is pop. He can't do dancehall,' even though I came from dancehall.