Quotes about Music

I wish I could say I had this master plan for a career, but I always thought acting was something I'd just do until I had a hit record.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

I listen to things that are popular and try to think about it in a mathematical way.

I am so lucky that I have been part of and written songs that will always resonate no matter how old they get.

The Marley name resonates all around the world.

In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.

I was a fan of Belle and Sebastian. I didn't really know a lot of their music - I only knew the kind of bigger songs because I had a friend, when I was younger, who was really into them. But I have always really respected Belle and Sebastian for what they are, what they do. Yeah, they're just great.

Time in our universe is always one way: no going back, no reverse. In music, you can reverse it!

People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.

My mother was a classic matriarchal figure. She'd sing round the house and always had music on.

A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.

I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.