Mick Jones Quotes

When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.

I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

You can never stop discovering music.

When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.

Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.

I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music!

I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that's popping.

I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.

Over the years, El Perro del Mar became this artist that, every record that came out, I just loved it.

I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past.

What I love about Zeppelin is that you can listen to their entire catalog and kind of see where they were at in the moment.

I was enamored with music at a very young age. Everything started with kundiman, then evolved to Carpenters, Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, and eventually classic rock music.

If hip-hop is dead, then let it rest in peace and let's move on to something else.

It frustrated me at college that all the acts in the Top 10 were like The Moody Blues and Phil Collins. It was like why did we get stuck with the last generation's music, why can't we have our own?

I love all types of music, and I think the genre lines are starting to get thinner every year.

My mum and dad used to listen to a lot of R&B and soul, so this was the way I grew up. Hip-hop, of course. But then as I grew older, I started listening to everything.

It's whatever - people like me and Dre are music people, so we're beyond just hip-hop. We're purists. Not everybody who makes beats is a purist.

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

I think that essentially, since music was invented, it's basically reached out and touched every single kind of conceivable generation.

Well, the thing is I always listened to American music way more than French music.

I would definitely say I'm a country girl at heart; I wanted to make sure that I established my music first at Country just because that is the artist that I am. But it wanted to spill over into pop too, which I don't have a problem with at all and I think is awesome because it spreads it to a broader audience of people.

I think to try to make new music and new ideas, you have to push the boundaries of existing music.