Dennis DeYoung Quotes

I think the '70s was a much healthier period for music because people were more innovative and creative.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.

I always loved the look of musicians. I've always admired them because they have a look - when I was growing up, it seemed that the ones I liked didn't need to have a stylist.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

I'm influenced by a lot of different genres of music. So I'm constantly trying to rework production and make things interesting in the live show and on records.

My only passion is music.

Upcoming composers in Bollywood are falling prey to the volume game, without caring what they are doing to the history of Indian music, and that's something to worry about.

Music is a living art.

Music is a living art. You re-create it.

I'm always working on new music.

Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.

I've always liked music since I was younger.

My brother was a drummer, and he was always, like, smashing the kit around when I was a kid, and my dad was, like, one of them old musicians, and he played in, like, loads of different bands in the '70s and '80s. Him and my brother were kind of like my main inspirations.

Music is forever changing.

I feel like music is always alive and well.

Our job is just to keep making great-sounding music and great performances.

I don't think there's such a difference between older and newer music as there is between one composer and another.

Musicians are hungry for new music.

I think rock 'n' roll, in a way, has been dead for a long time.

Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history.

I've always loved playing music and I always will.

I'm not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.