“Music is essentially useless, as is life.”
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“Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.”
“Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.”
“Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.”
“Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.”
“The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.”
“I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.”
“I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.”
“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 feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.”
“I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.”
“Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.”
“I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.”
“Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.”
“I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.”
“What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.”
“Metal is still the biggest music now in America.”
“The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.”
“I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.”
“My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.”
“You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.”
“Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!”
“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
“Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.”