Cecil Taylor Quotes

My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't mean to say I don't secretly really love some of our songs, which I do.

I love 'Shadow' the most! The melody is awesome, and I really like how the lyrics express genuine emotions.

I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.

There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.

The most important thing is that you like the music.

There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.

The last two records I liked playing a lot.

I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood.

We like songs that are familiar.

I love my own music.

All the songs are good, but 'Press Your Number' was fixed to be my favorite song from the beginning.

I always liked melody.

I love 'Treasure.' It's one of my favourite albums.

I've always been a fan of Drake's. I wouldn't say I listen to all of his music, but I would say that I pick tunes out of his that I love and then put them on repeat.

My favorites are songs that I get an emotional charge from, whatever genre they're in.

It changes over the course of life, depending on how you're feeling. There's this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you're hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.

I remember music first artists second.

I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say that they're my favorite songs.

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.

When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.

You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it.

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.