Nick Lowe Quotes

Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.

There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

People are consuming more than ever, but I think they want a bit of honesty and depth. Adele, Gotye, Janelle Monae - they're giving you a catchy song, but it's also a challenging song at the same time.

I have hundreds of songs.

If you look at the big rock hits I've had - 'High on Emotion,' for example - the songs I write have to have a real meaning. There has to be depth.

Star Anna is an American original. She sings from a place of beauty that takes me to a higher place.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

I'm definitely light-spirited, but I just felt like my music had to have a little more depth.

Marci Geller was a revelation! She's wonderful!

I thought Michael Mortilla was an orchestra unto himself!

John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

I have known Ori Kam for several years and have always regarded him as an extraordinarily talented young mucisian.

Ray Gomez is one of the greatest guitarists of all times!

'Cause a musician, you can't tell me, "I've got this message I want share with the public," and it's three-and-a-half minutes long. That's not it. If your message is only three-and-a-half minutes long, then we got nothing else to talk about. Because life is more complex than three-and-a-half minutes.

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

How would you define [Bob] Dylan? You can't. That's a true artist. How about Ray Charles? Can you classify Ray Charles? No, you can't. He's just great, period.

To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other.