Musician Quotes

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

I choose to express myself.

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.

Oh yeah, I know Johnnie Bassett. We were part of that whole thing.

I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.

I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.

I don't like to sing loud.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.