Jimmy Cliff Quotes

I've just tried for all of these years to find the best records, the best songs that I could find that fit me, and I've had great people to work with all these years.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metallica. At 19, I got a job at Tower Records, and everything started to change very quickly. I started listening to the Velvet Underground, Pixies, early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and also earlier music like the Beatles.

I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about him much or think about his music or anything, but it's interesting to hear his ideas on stuff.

I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

There's so much excellent new music around that I can't afford to buy it all and I haven't the time to review as much as I'd like. I can't remember a better time to be a musician or to listen to music!

I lived in Nashville for about five years. It was almost like me going to college for my craft. I immersed myself in the songwriting community there. They embraced me, and I made some real friends but also learned so much.

I spent my teens in northern California listening to KALX, KUSF, and KFJC, finding people that changed my life.

I have a really good relationship with a lot of people in the music industry from Detroit. They're very kind when it comes to us stepping into their field or what they do and they're really willing to help out and help you get better at what you're trying to do.

I really value what Closed Sessions is doing to build the Chicago music scene and am excited to partner with them for my first solo project.

In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.

I love being involved with Brainfeeder. I would have never thought that it would have been such an intense involvement.

I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.

Mos is a true artist who has a story to tell and gives back through his music. He remixed my song 'Different' in 2005, and the song we're working on now will be one of my future projects.

It's easier to record in LA than in New York and Detroit, because the space in LA is green, and there's sunshine, and I need all those positive vibes.

I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.

Music festivals are coming up everywhere in India, and that is the only way to go ahead. People are exposed to a wide variety of music, and the experience of being at a music festival itself is unique. It is an experience unlike any other.

Musicians are hungry for new music.

We make music for our fans, and that's what we'll continue to do.

I am always listening to new music and reading about music.

Chicago's music scene is very inspiring. I like to think of it as a small community of friends who enjoy creating and inspiring each other.

I love music, but the people in the music don't wanna work.

I love exploring music.

A lot of people that come to the concerts are in their 20s. I think they come to listen to something new, and I want to be able to provide that.