Music Quotes

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Life goes up and down. So I just incorporate it with my music. I'm just blessed.

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

Ever since I was 18 or 19, I've wanted to question the sound, tones, and scale associated with the piano as an instrument symbolic of modern European music.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

The movie industry can be tricky and occasionally creepy, and I have this sense that the music industry is just shady as hell. I don't want to be a part of it.

I could've given up on music and stuck with my day job. But I chose to work hard and articulate my sound. I look back on that time and I think to myself: I used it wisely.

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.