“The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.”
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“The thing about my music is, there really is no point.”
“Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.”
“Live music is better.”
“All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?”
“It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.”
“I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.”
“I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.”
“Music my rampart, and my only one.”
“Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.”
“I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.”
“Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.”
“They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”
“Soul music is timeless.”
“When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.”
“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'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.”
“I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.”
“I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.”
“It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.”
“I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.”
“I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.”
“Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.”
“Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.”