Musician Quotes

The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people.

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

I love what I do, so I don't mind working.

I love vinyl, man.

I live a pretty anonymous life.

I like down-to-earth people.

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.

I don't really hang out with a lot of celebrities.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.

I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.

Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and start going, 'Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?' Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don't.

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!

We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised.

They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.

There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.