Music Quotes

I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.

You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away.

It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.

In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again.

Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.

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

The king is gone but he's not forgotten.

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.

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.

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 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.

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?

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

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

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

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

Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.

Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.

It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good.