Howard Jacobson Quotes

I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful.

Music is in my DNA!

It's like there's the rest of the world, and then there's America. Part of the reason I would really love continue to making music over here because so much of American music has inspired me, whether it's Jeff Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen.

My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.

I like musicals and I love music.

I don't usually try to rely on songs to woo a girl, but I think Coldplay can get a girl in the mood... or make her cry, one or the other. I used to play in cover bands; we sure did our fair share of Coldplay. I like 'Viva La Vida.'

Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift.

No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape.

My first love was the sound of guitar.

All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.

When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.

I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.

All my lyrics are about my love life or the lack thereof.

I recorded songs with a great deal of meaning, songs of lasting material. That's the legacy I want to leave behind - a legacy of love.

So, anyway, I think the format of love songs for me stopped becoming about people and started becoming about life.

I can't be Stevie Wonder; I can't be Marvin Gaye, but I can be the foundation that I think withholds that mold.

That's the challenge as a songwriter is that there's only so many things people want to hear about, and relationships is just one of those things.

I don't pretend to want to write the Great American Symphony.

All I ever wanted to do, personally, was bring something new to what I loved: the thing that I loved the most, the music that I loved the most.

The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.

Music is one of my greatest loves. I don't think I would be able to live without music in my life.