Quotes About Music

The folks at Curb Records didn't have respect for me and I was there for 15 years.

Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ.

I've followed Tegan and Sara's music for quite a while, and I've been a fan of them and what they do and what they stand for. We've run into each other at one or two festivals over the years, and I kind of fanned out on them.

My dream that I followed and that I'm living now is that I actually always wanted to go to music college, play in a band, do a world tour, and then eventually get into film music.

I followed the Jazz as a kid.

It feels like there are more good youts out there following their dreams. It's not just music; they're doing loads of stuff - they are getting creative and doing mad out of the box stuff.

A lot of the cities where we have a strong following, we don't even get to every year anymore. But Stony Brook was a place that, from the very first time we went, the chemistry was right. They loved us, and we loved them, and we just kept going back and going back.

I've always been fond of acoustic music.

I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.

I have fond memories of our concert performances.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

I can beatbox. Well, sort of. I have one beat that I can do, but people get fooled.

It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.

I knew I wanted to do music, but leaving such a successful career one would think I'd kind of shot myself in the foot. I knew I made the right decision, and at the end of the day it's up to me to get where I want to go, but it's a lot to take on.

I started out on an apprenticeship in Hollywood working as an assistant to Hans Zimmer and another composer Klaus Badelt. That's how I got my foot in the door.

Back when I was growing up, I always had one foot in the street and one foot in music.

It's always cool when somebody from a football team or baseball team comes to your show.

There was a footballer, Matt Le Tissier, from Guernsey. But as far as music, no, not many people have come out of there.

It's like Christians who want to be like Jesus. We're just trying to follow in someone's footsteps. Might as well be The Beatles.

I'm from Chicago, so you know we come from juking and footwork.

My history of singing has always probably been closer to a David Bowie approach than, for example, an AC/DC approach.

I made 'Epicloud' for the people that have listened to what I've done because I really think that this style of music fits well into my personal daily life and hopefully others.

For the people that don't know it, we've had members come and go from this band since the beginning. It's always been about collaboration, and it's been about just playing music with our friends.

I do my music for me, second for my entourage, and at the end, for the people. It's healthy to work that way.