Marnie Stern Quotes

I've put out records over the years, whether it's with Blackfield or No-Man or Bass Communion or Porcupine Tree, that are pop records, ambient records, metal records, singer-songwriter records.

When I watch drummers, I always want to see energy. It's not about the proficiency of the musicianship; I'm just into the vibe and excitement of it. With drums, it's such a primeval thing.

I always like to say that the music I'd like to make is somewhere between Pan Sonic and Scott Walker. But I don't sing anything like Scott Walker.

Rock on out.

I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.

I skate to anything with a good beat, anything that can get me motivated.

I joined a band to hit things.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.

Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.

If there was a wrong note, it didn't matter as long as it was rocking.

My favorite song of ours is 'Dance The Night Away.'

The more rocking, the better.

I listened to a lot of King Crimson back in the day.

For more than 15 years, Mogwai has built a reputation on its monstrous ambitions for rock music.

When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.

We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.

I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.

For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.

Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

Dance is my passion.

The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.

I always want to rock.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.