“I just want to keep writing music.”
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to something deeper. These quotes explore rhythm, melody, performance, and the mysterious way that organized sound can make you cry, dance, or remember something you thought you had forgotten.
“I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.”
“I just want to keep writing music.”
“We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.”
“I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.”
“I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.”
“We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.”
“The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.”
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
“I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.”
“I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.”
“I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.”
“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”
“Yoga is almost like music in a way there's no end to it.”
“This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.”
“No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.”
“I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.”