Musician Quotes

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.

I don't actually go to a lot of games because I think football on TV is better. Even though I'm pretty busy, I watch 90 percent of Ohio State's games.

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

At work, you want to stand out but not in extra-funky ways. At the core, it's about dressing for girls - who are most of my fans - and you want to dress up for them. You just want to feel like you're on top of your game.

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.

As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

Experience is a great teacher.

Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?

There's no new news.

Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

Getting married in four days was the biggest... mistake I've ever made. I have two beautiful kids, but... how can you know somebody in four days? Bonehead.

You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.

The Radiohead record, The Bends is my all-time favorite record on the planet.

You can't beat The Beatles, you join 'em.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby.

I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.

If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio.

I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.

I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.

I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.