Music Quotes

In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

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

Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

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

Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

I'm dreading the time that is not near. As a man on a cross I have no fear. I can't believe these words I'm saying. You've got to feel your lines.

For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.

We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.

I'm a complete and utter busker.

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

When you can see your unborn children in her arms, you know you really love a woman.