Music Quotes
When I'm there, I'm not here. I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it.
When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
One good man, Oh ain't much, honey ain't much, It's only everything...
Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it.
What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.
You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way.
I especially love the pump organ on "Walkin' on the Road (to the Future)" and "The Wonder Won't Wait"-it adds this wheezing, groaning sound. It's almost as though another person, another set of lungs, is suddenly in the room.
The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.
I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.
When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.
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