“I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.”
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“Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.”
“Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.”
“I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.”
“Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.”
“I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.”
“That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.”
“Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.”
“My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.”
“Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.”
“To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.”
“If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.”
“Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.”
“I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.”
“I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.”
“Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.”
“I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.”
“I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.”
“I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.”
“Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'”
“Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.”
“The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.”
“I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.”
“And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.”