Bret McKenzie Quotes

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.

I get excited about a crowd that likes our kind of music.

I do believe the music keeps us coming back. We really enjoy playing it.

I think it's just entertainment for people that are interested in the form. To sing along to and be psyched by.

I hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one singing.

Music is fun. It should be fun. And that's the key, I think. Keep it as the thing you love.

I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music.

I love the outdoor festival feeling. When I'm on stage, it's very gratifying to watch people on the lawns enjoying the music with a glass of wine.

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert.

It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it.

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.

I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.

I have a feeling a lot of the records I grew up listening to and the records I still like, as hard as musicians worked making them, I feel like they were really enjoying what they were going through. They weren't just going through the process. You can tell that with certain things that you listen to.

My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing.

I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.

Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.

The way the music comes to you starts to affect how you listen to music. When you're a kid, it's 'Does it rock? Does it make me feel good? Does it make me tap my feet? Does it make me go to sleep?'

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.

Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me to play here because, you know, I played two feet from people all night. And after all those years, it's great to be able to talk to folks.

If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!

I want to let everyone hear my music and enjoy it, but just as long as it's fun. I'll go as far as until it gets too much like a day job.

I just love getting dirty.