Quotes About Music

If the whole idea, in the original bebop days, was to get to soloing, then that's all it should be about.

I was doing the Klaus Schulze noise-kid thing before it became interesting to people.

I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I'm always thinking. I've got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house.

I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and writing poetry.

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

I made a lot of the first album on a laptop in my bedroom after college and after work.

I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.

The Bee Gees no longer exist.

You're looking at the Bee Gees right now.

I'd always listened to my parents' Bee Gees albums.

You gotta be crazy to want beef with Eminem and MGK is that.

You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.

I think a great piece, whenever it was written, gets under our skin, makes us feel something. That's what Beethoven was trying to do.

I'm a big Beethoven fan, and you'll struggle to find a three-minute song on any of his stuff.

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.

During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.

Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

I would sit in my dorm room and write songs. I loved it. I was learning to sing and play guitar. I was becoming a musician. I was the beginner who somehow could write a song.

After winning 'K-pop Star' and debuting as a singer, I had a team of people who helped me. But then I realized that to do my own music, there's work that I myself had to take care of and no one can do it on behalf of me. So I started writing my own music.

I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff.

If I'm being honest I hate the whole genre thing.

As long as the fans keep comin' out, we're gonna keep making records and keep being there.