I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.
I was raised around music.
If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.
Just because you have a hit doesn't mean you're good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.
Anybody can put sexual content to music, but I feel like I took it to a next level where it's a mood or feel.
I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.
I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.
I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.
Sharing information, art, music, and everything on the internet now has become a part of everyone's lives.
A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.
We had a wonderful department that scouted out new music. It was beneficial to Rolling Stone, because I would come back and say, "You have to hear this, you have to hear that," and I found a lot of bands to feature, emerging bands. It [ended up being] symbiotic.
I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.
I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio. . . That's a beautiful part of music.
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!
I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music.