Quotes About Music

I suppose that when I started to play the lute it was fairly esoteric.

People want to see a magical fairytale story, but the reality is that I spent a lot of time making music alone in my bedroom.

I don't believe soul is something you can fake. I'm trying to make my music as real as possible, because I feel this is my form of communicating with the world.

There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances.

I have fallen back in love with music, which has allowed me to get back to my roots and create sounds without borders.

Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.

In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.

I heard the Abbey Lincoln song 'The World is Falling Down,' and it just resonated with me so deeply.

I damaged my legs and ankles many years ago when doing concerts and falling off stage.

I just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&B, and I love the radio smashes he's put out since then, but I go back to his older music for that R&B.

Growing up with music as a kid - I used to feel like artists were writing songs about me falling in love.

Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category.

I've developed this routine at home. I wait for the kids to go to bed; then my wife falls asleep. Then, it's dark and quiet enough for me to work on songs.

My granddad doesn't care if he falls down when he's singing, he's just having a laugh.

I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.

We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

We like songs that are familiar.

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

Try to say something familiar in a unique way so that it's sing-alongable, even if you don't speak English.

When I was growing up in Israel, Cantorial music was something I heard over and over on the radio, so it wasn't at all strange to me. I was very familiar with the music.

The dictionary contains thousands of words on Tamil music. I am not familiar with most of the words, but it shows the rich past of Tamil music.

When you don't act right to your family and friends, that's bad, but they also have the opportunity to experience the 'good' side as well. Disappointing the fans is an entirely different thing because the fans love your music and save up money to see you in concert.

We would play songs live on stage, and then we'd watch their reaction we were receiving immediately, if people were dancing and singing along. If they weren't, then we'd go into the dressing rooms of the different NBA teams that we were playing in their arenas, and we'd change the songs right there.

On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.