“Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.”
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“I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.”
“We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dream.”
“What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.”
“From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.”
“With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.”
“I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.”
“I love music.”
“I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?”
“I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.”
“I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.”
“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.”
“It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.”
“When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.”
“You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.”
“To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.”
“Music is your guide.”
“I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.”
“People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.”
“The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.”
“To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.”
“Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.”
“It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.”
“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.”