Music Quotes

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.

All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.

With an iron-clad fist, I wake up and French-kiss the morning.

It's now or never. I ain't gonna live forever. I just wanna live while I'm alive. It's my life.

You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down.

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

In the Chili Peppers, I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal.

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

It's, it's like I'm in the fourth dimension and somebody is asking me to describe it verbally and that's what the fourth dimension is all about, is no words, no symbols, no images, all pure, real energy and vibrations. And, and if I thought about how cruel of a world this is, I would probably just commit suicide after a while, if that was what I spent my energy thinking about. I would definitely not have any strength left to create music.

Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet. Switch below with above all the way up into infinity. We should be thankful who we are, whether we know ourselves or not.

Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.

I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.