“If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.”
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“Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.”
“I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.”
“The only love affair I have ever had was with music.”
“There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.”
“If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.”
“Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.”
“Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls tumbling, gushing.”
“I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.”
“A lot of country music is sad.”
“There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.”
“I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.”
“We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.”
“I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!”
“It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.”
“Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.”
“I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.”
“It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.”
“You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.”
“The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.”
“We don't make music - it makes us.”
“People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.”
“Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.”
“I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.”