Paul Verlaine Quotes

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

I like all kinds of music. But I would rather people stop caring about lines.

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

To me, a song is new every time I sing it.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

Fashion and music are connected, since both are expressions.

Just like music, I consider wrestling to be an art form, and I have a vision of what that art should look like.

I'm definitely one of them artists that loves putting the track on and having fun with it, but in my own way.

Music happens. It cannot be made.

Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

An orchestra can add some class, a historical vibe, but I believe you can get the same emotion from pottery wheels.

For me, music is pure abstraction.

I'd listen to a song and say, 'Hang on, I like that piano thing,' so I'd play the guitar like that and get the vibe from it, and it just evolved from the get-go. It was pretty obvious what to do; You don't think about rock n' roll: you just do it.

All of my solos were improvised initially - I would go in and get my bearings and see what I came up with.

Music and fashion complement one another when combined.

I loved the freedom of improvised music.

Composing is improvisation slowed down.

A blown-out tube ripped some of the grind from the amplifier, throwing us into a momentary tizzy. The unusual sound led me to play unusually, and the recorded take turned out to be a keeper. Insriration can come from the most unlikely places ... keep your head on and your ears open.

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

I got home, picked up my ax, turned on the four-track and just played it ... I played three solos back to back on Cemetery Gates ... the next morning, the second and third solos weren't bad, but the first had that first take magic ! .. I didn't touch it.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting. I don't think I always got it straight.

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.