Boz Burrell Quotes

I go to metal concerts as well as classical concerts, and I love both of them.

I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again.

The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.

You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.

I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show.

At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.

I have a pretty wide range of musical tastes.

I grew up on hip-hop. I grew up on Run-D.M.C., Whodini, LL when I was in college, so I'm more of a music fan. I probably have the most eclectic collection of music in my Grand Cherokee. Literally, in a span of a week, I'll go from 2Pac to Boyz II Men to Sister Hazel, right down to West Side Story or the Wiz. I love show tunes.

I don't know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see shows where there was my mother taking us to see classic rock concerts, like Zeppelin, or when I saw Pink Floyd or when I saw, you know, when I was a little older, and I saw Nine Inch Nails, and I saw The Cure.

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.

There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.

I always give the audience a variety because I want to make sure they hear the favorites and all that.

I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.

People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.

I was put on so many different musical stages growing up that I didn't think about what kind of music we played. I just thought music was music.

Most of the people I hang out with who sing love it, and they just want to do it until they die. I still look forward to the performances. And believe it or not, they're all kind of different. Even though you sing the same songs, and maybe you go to the same venues, it just feels completely different every time you go on stage.

I listen to jazz, pop, rock, R&B. It really doesn't matter to me.

I like all types of music. Even though rap music is 80 percent of what I listen to, it's not the only thing I listen to.

I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.

I didn't know what to expect when we first started touring behind 'Southeastern' because you don't want to lull anybody to sleep or lose their attention. But it's really been incredible how the crowds seem to be just as excited for the slow, sad songs as they are for the old rockers.

I've gotten to play some cool venues, like at an aquarium in La Jolla, California.