Michael Hutchence Quotes

When I first started singing, I didn't know which direction to take - I sang rock & roll and all kinds of things.

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.

I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to be rock n' roll and have a rock n' roll attitude. I was fighting my nature by trying to play really hard and sing really hard. But at a certain point, I realized that I loved syrupy pop music with tons of harmony.

When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.

You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion.

Classical music is for listening but rock and roll is to have fun with.

I don't just sing R&B: I'm able to sing pop and play with other sounds, but it's all real soulful.

I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.

I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.

I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.

Rock music is a funny thing: You can actually take it too far sometimes, and then it's not rock music anymore - it's something else, but it's not rock.

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people.