Andrew Ridgeley Quotes

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

Wisin is my brother. He always will be my brother. We are very happy as solo artists. We had a great musical trajectory together, which will be there forever. And for the future, we won't discard reuniting and making something new.

People like Prince don't have to care about anything, but they care because they want music for the future to be great.

When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music.

As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar.

We don't want to be Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. That type of thing wasn't what we were after. It was most important for each of us to be equal in input and output - each of us has to pull the same amount, musically, in composition and in every sense of being in the band.

But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.

Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by rock and roll. It's the music of our time, and it's 'in the air,' as Steve Reich would say. My experience of it is just really direct because I'm actually playing in a collaborative band.

I make a timeless music. I think I've made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a tastemaker.

In some ways, it's more rewarding to hear someone interpret a piece of music that you're a part of.

When you start a band, you have to find people that are good, have the same sort of mindset as you musically.

Prince, I think, trained amazing musicians to bring more to any musical table they come to.

I've grown up listening to Gorillaz, so for me to, like, be asked to be on the album is an honour.

A-ha is not me, Paul, or Magne: it is its own individual that has its own identity and characteristics. It is a result of a particular meeting point between the three of us.

2112' basically set the course for my musical career and how I approached Dream Theater.

You have to understand, that's all I've ever wanted: for London to have a credible musical voice. I will honestly, honestly die happy knowing that I saw it happen.

There would be no Static-X if I didn't write all the songs.

I don't really listen to contemporary R&B with an ear for hearing my influence. Music is a spirit unto itself, and all of us musicians influence each other all along the chain.