Quotes About Music

So, anyway, I think the format of love songs for me stopped becoming about people and started becoming about life.

I think it would be fun to play a young Ozzy Osbourne in a movie about the formation of Black Sabbath.

Everything I do will always be compared to 'Love Song' in terms of success or the way it's written or whatever, but it was a really formative moment in my life and in my career.

One of the things I did learn from 'The Epic' was that we don't have to feel so much pressure to conform to set formats. A song doesn't have to be three minutes and 30 seconds.

We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.

Dream Theater was my baby. I formed it from the beginning, out of college, and I lived a lifetime with them.

I got so lonely in 2012 and I wasn't playing drums. I thought I would just form my own band and play drums again. I think it was 2013 that we started looking for two other people and formed Day of Errors.

I have two best friends - the dancer and choreographer Bobby Newberry and my former bandmate Kimberley Wyatt.

I'm always forming bands.

One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot reach. I'll put my cards on the table: I think it is our greatest language.

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

There's no formula for choosing songs. I've beeen lucky over the years. You just hear it and you do it.

Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt 'N' Pepa. Now, people have got the formula, and some of them are just doing it for the cheque. It's kind of watered down.

I'm a huge salsa fan. I actually have a salsa on my album, 'Formula Vol. 2,' featuring Marc Anthony.

For songs to be big, I don't think there's a certain formula to it.

The formula to my music is that it has to have comedy in it. The vulgarness cannot be digested without a little comedy.

Singing is definitely not my forte. I'll put that out there on the record.

Acting is not my forte.

Me and Kendrick Lamar have had conversations for years back and forth, so that's my dude.

I feel like music and design complete the idea of each other for me. So, it's like whatever I'm trying to express in one really can't be fully expressed without the other. I've always seen them as the flipside of a coin and bounced back and forth.

I am fortunate that I was born in a family where music was already a part of life.

Music has always been a large part of my life, and I'm very fortunate to be able to start a career doing something I love.

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.