Quotes About Music

When you're in the studio, you can't be like, 'I want to make music that everybody will like!' You have really understand your fan base, what they like, and that's what you do it for.

We've got a younger fan base - and their parents. One day when we were at Abbey Road, an entire family was outside waiting for us - like, a nine-year-old, a 16-year-old, and their mother. They can agree on liking us for whatever reason. It's kind of strange.

I just go out and sing my songs. I don't put on elaborate stage shows with ridiculous fancy dress.

I fancy myself as a bit of a groover.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.

My fans have showered me with so much love that it encourages me more to give them better music every time.

I really have fans that are from 14 or 15 years old to 60.

It was the fans sharing my music around that started it all for me.

I am very conscious of first sampling the music and then getting it out for fans.

As a little girl, I had huge fantasies about music.

I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it. In fact, to tell you the truth, even if no one did want to listen to me, I'd still be doing it!

My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

You'd walk by MTV an hour ago, and you come back, and it seemed like the same song was playing. I want to stay as far away from that as I can in my band.

My family love Khruangbin's faraway soundscapes.

If you're looking for light entertainment, you can't get much lighter than 'Bye Bye Birdie,' a flyweight farce about the coming of rock n' roll to small-town America.

People are getting away from the whole album experience, it's true. I think that's sad. Maybe I'm just saying that because I'm an old fart. But I can't help it - albums are what I grew up with, and I still love them.

Those are the things that are in me, even going farther back, to Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. I dont consciously pull from them, but they tend to come out in different ways in everything I do.

Big forms fascinate me.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.