Quotes About Music

My main focus is to help people through music.

I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.

We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.

I always felt that the music sells by itself. The music has always been the successful aspect on my career, and that means that, to me, I can always still stay very focused on music.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

I always tell myself, 'When I'm working on my record, I won't cut my hair.' I get so focused on the music that I'm not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

I was focusing on sax while at Berklee, but then I started to play Brazilian choro and Colombian music. I was doing more folkloric stuff on the clarinet because it works better. Finally, I realized I was working more on the clarinet than the saxophone, and I started to feel more comfortable on it.

It seems as though if you go on tour with someone that means you're automatically going out with them. I'm just focusing on my music.

Fog and one blue light is all I need in life at the club. Just a dark room and loud music. I'm into that.

People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to other people to produce me.

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.

My family used to put on a small folk festival.

Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

I would love to do something with Mohit Chauhan and other folk artists.

I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do.

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot of energy into that. I write pretty much all the time.

I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on.

I love Punjabi Folk.

John Martin was a great, complex folk singer, and later on, his music became more and more melancholic as he went through a separation with his wife.

I'm the Folk Implosion's biggest fan.

The folk that you get on Radio 1 isn't the sort of thing that I'm into: it's kind of too uptempo and jaunty for me. I prefer a bit of atmosphere and a bit of darkness.

It is a part of us, film-makers and audiences; what we can't say with dialogues, we say with a song. We tell stories through songs, look at our folk cultures.