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Music Quotes
"I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play."
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"Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music."
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"Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me."
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"I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland."
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"I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to."
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"That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there."
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"If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something."
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"I am for sure a redhead and there aren't that many of us out there in music."
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"Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing."
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"Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't."
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"Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song."
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"I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it."
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"My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him."
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"It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music."
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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."
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"I'm really fed up with all the credibility talk. A lot of times it seems to be more important than the music. Well, I guess for a lot of people it actually is. We don't care for credibility."
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"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."
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"Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals."
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"The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true."
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"In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film."
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"The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless."
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