Quotes About Music

I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.

An eminent Iranian composer, Pezhman Mosleh, has honored me with this gift (the piece of On the Threshold).

Black keys of the piano give good sounds and the white keys give good sounds, but the combination of the two gives the best melody.

Never leave a child to their own devices. Unless it's a piano.

Im on some Marvin Gay shit, a bunch of distant lovers.

Rap is stress, but it pays great.

Soap opera rappers, all these niggas sound like All My Children.

Rappers are emotional. Critics be reviewin me. But I got love for everybody even if youre suin me.

Some say that Im their favorite, but I aint hearing none of that. Im about my team, hoe, Young Money running back.

Drop the mixtape, that shit sounded like an album. Whoda thought a country wide tour would be the outcome.

Fans of these freshmen is about to get iffy while this youngin that you doubted is about to get busy.

In order to gain loyal fans, I had to give away a lot of music.

The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn't get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s.

Young, R&b and pop presented by the bay area cofield twins that brings Duality to their audience

It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

Lloyd Hey, look, the Monkees. They were a huge influence on the Beatles.

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.

When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life.