Music Quotes

No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.

Dandelions don't tell no lies.

I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

It's kind of limiting using your intellect to write songs like Brown Sugar, isn't it? The only thing I'm really interested in is comparative religion and ancient history.

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.

I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.

One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.

I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What's the difference?

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.