Bob Mould Quotes

I'm hungry for purpose. I'm looking for still that reason that I bought a guitar and started a band, to fulfill a purpose, to manifest destiny as to who I am and why I am the way I am, and what I do. I think it's still about the music, the song and the story.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

Music inspires me.

If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.

Music is for dreamers, I think.

Music isn't what I do. It's who I am.

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

Music is such a part of my soul.

I am a very curious person, not just about my life in music. I love arts and creativity.

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

I am not really into paintings, to be honest, but for me, the art I love is when I see singers putting their heart into their song, actors giving the performance of their lives, and books and movies that make me feel something I never thought I could; there's art in everything as long as it's made with soul.

I don't know which was the first love - music or fashion.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.

I used to always love taking photos, but I would always give a camera away to someone else. Now I don't give the camera away anymore. It also takes a long time to develop a visual style, and I think that the things that I was imitating were people I love, like Judy Linn or Gerald Turner, and then it slowly started to become more myself.

It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.

More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.

I think there'll always be a kid with a guitar with a song in his heart that's going to turn me on - that's as far as I can see. Whether lots of people agree with that, I'm not sure.

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

My heart and soul is still music.