Musician Quotes

But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

I looked Death right in the face.

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.

We never worry about the big things, just the small things.

Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'

Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.

My hairstylist taught me a trick for my hair. You section off your hair and put them up in these crazy little knots and then it looks like you curled your hair. It's saved me so much time 'cause on the road you don't have time or plugs to plug your curling iron in.

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.