Lisa Loeb Quotes

I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes.

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.

If you're playing with a number of people, there are all sorts of textures, all kinds of possibilities you can get into. So why just play a theme together and then take solos?

Being from a big band is great because you can do other bands.

I am friends with the most amazing musicians that can do pop, rap, punk and jazz.

I prefer playing with a band. It's good to do both, but for me it's quite exciting when I hear my songs completely transformed with the band behind me. You can really get into it more, and so can the audience.

I don't mind Ed Sheeran, but I wouldn't want to be compared to a guy that builds his song around a guitar, since we do not have a guitar in our band.

I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.

I have learned that music comes in all shapes and sizes.

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or 'Sherry,' I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.

In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.

I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.

I do understand that not everyone is going to sit and listen to an Enya album. When someone says it's not their cup of tea, it's not their kind of album, that's fine by me.

I like writing all different kinds of songs. I've wanted to run the gamut of artists.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

I was put on so many different musical stages growing up that I didn't think about what kind of music we played. I just thought music was music.

Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.

I've recorded in Portuguese, too. I didn't set out to just sing ballads or romantic songs.

I guess I always think the people that know me or fans that have followed me and know my solo work would know that I've always had really eclectic tastes - even in Motley, dude.