Vinnie Paul Quotes

Besides my son, music is the most important thing to me. I always have music on in my car and playing at house, and I'm in the studio or performing every night. I like Beats by Dre for headphones, and Bang & Olufsen soundsystems.

It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.

I am just glad that I can take the music to the people who want to hear it. I love my audiences. I am deeply indebted to them for giving me the chance to sing my concerts, make records, and do what I love. Whatever people call it, it is great to have a voice!

There are incredible musicians around the world.

I am making good music, and I want people to listen to it.

They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music.

People send me CDs all the time because I love music. It's great. I listen to them in my dressing room or in my car.

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

I just don't get that new hot music. I don't know anything about all these groups like U2.

I am a musician, ya know; music is my world.

I hope I don't give music a bad name.

I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing.