Musician Quotes

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little.

The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.

Sometimes I'll flip through a magazine and do a double take when I see myself in it, it's just crazy!

It's totally weird to see myself on a billboard!

I'm a huge shoe person, and I have lots of shoes.

I wear a lot of black, but not in the goth way, I just really love black. I'll never be in pink or purples.

I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

I started singing at age five and haven't stopped since.

I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.

I love every kind of music.

I like things in my hair - big feather pieces.

I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!

I don't do earrings.

You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.

You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'

When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.

We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.