Musician Quotes

The fact is that we take music very seriously.

The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!

That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.

Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.

Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.

I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.

Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.

Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that.

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.

And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.

What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?