Leon Bridges Quotes

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.

I always come back to the gentler stuff like Simon & Garfunkel and the Fleet Foxes' first album - that's quite an odd one.

I love heavy music, but you see, I had fallen in love with a radio station in Vegas that played nothing but Eighties music. That had a real profound impact on me.

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.

When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music.

Don't get me wrong: there are aspects of buying music online that I love. Instantly being able to hear a song the moment it crosses your mind? Where's the downside? However, I do feel for those too young to remember the thrill of going record shopping.

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.

I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.

I usually get down with a little Violent Femmes in the summer. You know, 'Blister In The Sun.'

My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

I'm a lover of songs.

I like musicals and I love music.

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.

One of my favorite songs is 'Ghost' by Indigo Girls. Emily Saliers wrote that, and she is one of the most talented songwriters ever.

'Grease' was how I learned that I really liked music and musicals and movies that included music.

I love music so much. I've got something going all the time. I've gotta be singing. I've gotta be creating music, or I'm not happy.