Music Quotes

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 got to get it while you can.

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.

Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel.

Thank you, Buffalo Springfield. There will never be another. It's about chemistry. Love and chemistry.

When we were strangers, I liked you from afar when we were lovers, I loved you with all my heart

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

World Record" has a looseness and a spontaneity that's rare in new recordings. It reminds me a little of listening to old 78-r.p.m. records-most early recording artists had just one three-minute shot in front of the microphone, and sometimes things got a little wild, a little free. How do you purposefully cultivate that feeling in the studio?

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.

Because the record companies, in their ultimate wisdom, seeing what a great thing digital was, they sold all the places where they made records. Now people want records and they haven't got a facility to make them in, so it takes months and months and months to get vinyl. Vinyl is ultimately much better.

I don't feel connected to the whole vision of the record in the same way-it's got all these characters. The point of view of "Love Earth" and the point of view of "Break the Chain" are so different. It's not the same thing, but it is the same thing.

I play the songs, and we're doing it live, and everything happens, and then we capture it like that. Rick is a genius. It's so easy, because he loves music. You're not gonna find a person who loves music more than Rick. He's dedicated to preserving it.

The king is gone but he's not forgotten.

The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.