Quotes About Transition

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

Where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

Change is inevitable in music - things change.

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

I don't think I'm ready for New York.

Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Barack Obama getting elected.

When I got home, I was trying to figure out how to be home. Like, be home in a sense that had nothing to do with music.

I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.

I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.