music Quotes

I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.

Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else.

I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.

In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.

I always loved rock 'n' roll.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say that hearing grand orchestral music in a public place is exhilarating in a way that hearing popular music never can be, if only because, in a popular music age, a full orchestra is less familiar to our ears.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.