Quotes About Music

I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history.

I'm fascinated by Bollywood.

I almost chose the career of an ethnomusicologist because I was so fascinated by that music. It gives a different feeling of time.

I'm fascinated by film scores, especially film scores for children's movies because they have to be able to entertain an audience that isn't interested in music yet.

I was always fascinated particularly with synths: how they looked and stuff that when you're a kid you're like this is the most incredible thing in the world just to play.

I've always been fascinated with the '60s in general.

Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world's favorite music comes out of that relationship.

I love Sylvan Esso. I want to bring in more electronic elements, but also some analogue stuff. Stuff like '70s drum machines really fascinates me.

To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Music is one way of expressing yourself, and fashion is another.

Music became so commercialized that I just didn't want anything to do with it. I renounced the industry before it became the fashionable thing to do.

The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.

I think it keeps your brain moving faster, singing in another language.

I got over the transverse myelitis stuff; I'm walking great, and I'm playing faster; I mean, I'm just playing all the time. I have to, just as exercise.

'Coming Over' was probably the fastest collaboration I've ever done.

The Internet is the fastest way to get what you want and expose yourself to music you would never have heard otherwise.

When I was at Capitol - and this was not Capitol's fault - I was aiming, you know. I would listen to country radio and go, 'What version of me does radio want?'

Internet, for all its faults, exposed me to a lot more music.

People are more willing to dislike your music and want to find faults in you when you are given opportunities like in my case. But I think in my case, people love my work and that's why I have to work doubly hard.

I'm just me and if me being honest about who I am and putting myself out there in that way makes connections with people and helps people out, that's just repaying the favor of music because that's what music does for me.

My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!

All of my favorite music was probably in the rock category.

'Bohemian Rhapsody' is my all-time favorite.