Quotes About Music

Fortunately I'm Latin, and I'm born with a little bit of rhythm by default. It's in the DNA. I have that going for me, but I've never been considered one of the world's greatest dancers.

I left Fleetwood Mac to make myself happy, and fortunately, it worked.

I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately, that's never turned out to be the case.

I have no way of knowing why my career has lasted so long other than the fact that people like the sound of my voice. Fortunately, I've been able to maintain it.

Being in the studio for the first time was a daunting process. I didn't know what the engineers did. A mix? What's a mix? We didn't know what we were doing, but fortunately, we knew people who did.

I won the national award for the best music composer and also had the fortune of scoring music for songs penned by M. Karunanidhi for the movie 'Pasakiligal.'

I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.

Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.

We're not the corporation of Foster the People. We're a band.

Foster the People wouldn't exist without Mophonics.

I'm in control of my musical career, which means more than awards and record sales. And that freedom is exactly what my dad fought for, too.

My relationship with my brothers... it's almost weird. We've never fought, we finish each other's sentences, but not in a creepy way. We talk about the things that we love and share music with each other.

Songs lay a foundation of who I am going to be forever.

Christian music was such a huge foundation for me, even as a kid, and I grew to love Christian music not only because of the musicianship, which I thought was extraordinary, but because of the message in it. It was such a huge building block of who I was and who I would become.

Early on, I started with classical voice and had that wonderful foundation. For where I wanted to go at that time, there were no teachers to teach it, so I came up with all kinds of different ways to develop the sound of my voice.

As one of the founders of Three 6 Mafia, I would like to see the group get back together, you know. But I am definitely thinking about it and would like to see it happen.

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

I started playing sax when I was fourteen because I'm like a real competitive person when it comes to winning girls attention. And there was this girl that I really wanted the attention of and I found out she really liked jazz.

I would say that 'Creed' has a lot more music in it. It's 60 minutes of music, while 'Fruitvale' had about a fourth of that at best. There's a bigger focus in 'Creed' because I had to make music for training montages.

I played the piccolo in the 'Ides of March' and 'The Fantastic Mr. Fox' score.

Mimi Fox is one of the most exciting contemporary jazz guitarists I've heard.

Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.