“It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.”
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.
“There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.”
“It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.”
“I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.”
“Rock music is niche.”
“Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.”
“There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.”
“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
“Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.”
“I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.”
“I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.”
“I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.”
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”
“In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?”
“A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.”
“There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.”
“I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.”