Musician Quotes

I am the man who put the hair in hair metal.

I acted in millions of TV shows.

America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.

A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than screaming.

You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar.

My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.

I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.

Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.

My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it.

I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.

I want to produce a country album for a country singer.

I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

I do what I want. It's because I got booed and picked on that I really don't care anymore.

All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn't really work, they just sounded like they were trying to copy that whole style. Now the music sounds British, something real rather than an imitation.

Things go in cycles. It's like fashion, like flares go out then skinny jeans come in, people want something fresh. It's the strongest ever urban scene at the moment and I hope it can progress and keep getting stronger and be the base for something larger.

We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.

The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out with the word, which she thought was a good word, a hard word, and since then we've sort of attached loads of meaning to it.

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.