Quotes About Music

When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music makers with their own agenda.

I've had the honor of sitting in with the Allmans at their Beacon shows a couple of times, and it just doesn't get better than that.

The first record I bought was actually Booker T and the MG's 'Red Beans and Rice.'

Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.

For a show, I can bear a little longer than 45 minutes, not including encores.

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

Ryan Tedder is just a beast.

We sort of find that music tames the beast, you know.

I'll just write with no music, no nothing and then try to apply it to music and sometimes, a beat will speak to me.

I'm bigger than the Beatles!

Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles.

I think the Beatles are a lot of people's favorite band.

As for the way we play, we are as much like the Beatles as any American Jazz group is like any other.

The Beatles will exist without us.

I cannot bear assaults of any kind, and it seems to me that the Beatles essentially were out to affront and to assault.

There's no outdoing The Beatles.

The Beatles will go on and on.

I really like The Beatles.

From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them.

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

Growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. I felt with The Beatles legacy that there was pressure on me to do music, and while I always loved music and it was always around me at home, I thought about doing other things.

My favorite album would have to be something from The Beatles.

My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.

I fantasized that I went to art school with the Beatles.