LP Quotes

I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.

Older people generally appreciate live music.

I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music.

Live music is better.

I've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

I love live performance and have huge admiration for people who can really do it. It's the same with music: I'll play a record and think that I'm not really into country or ragga. But, if it's live and the musicians are good, I'll listen to pretty much anything.

I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it.

A weird thing about Gossip that I've always said: 'If I weren't in this band, I would never listen to it.' But I would go see it. It's a band you would go see that you don't necessarily listen to. We've always wanted to do a live album because personally, I think we're a way better band live than on record.

When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.

I'm a fan of good music, period.

Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.

I'm not gonna sit back and listen to somebody who listens to 3LW all day.

Basically, I listen to voices. If they write good songs and they can sing, I'll probably like it.

The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time.

When I see someone great live, what I think is, 'I can't wait to hear the record.'

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

If I can put on my album in a car or on my headphones and listen to the whole thing and love it, that's what I'm going to be happy putting out there.

I think that most people really know if it's a really great album.

If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight down to the record exchange.

Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.

I want people to know that I won't just assume that people will like my music.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds different from the version we fell in love with, then it's awful.