Music Quotes

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

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.

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.

The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.