Music Quotes

I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.

The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.

I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.

But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.

I don't think I thought I was going to go into music, and I don't think it hit me until I was 13 or 14, and then I was gone. Just like that. At that point, there was nothing else that could keep my attention.

I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music.

Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.