Danger Mouse Quotes

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

The Beatles changed the world. They certainly changed my world, and many, many other individuals as well.

I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity.

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

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

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

What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

Elvis is great and so is anybody who lasts like he does.

A legacy is a lot of times determined by how people accept your music. And sometimes people's legacy starts late or starts early, or they last a long time or a short amount of time. As a musician, I've never taken an approach of wanting to try to control that because I don't think that I can.

Our story is in two halves, as the band's career up to Freddie's death was 20 years, and 20 years later, our music is as popular as it was then. It's a sort of everlasting... income.

I really felt like we were gonna be The Rolling Stones of heavy metal, and we could have been.

It feels amazing and beautiful that music can have such an importance on the way that people form social groups. Music can change people. People can change the world.

He[Michael Jackson] had a joy in being alive. There was a joy you felt of him on the stage and making us not just feel good but pushing us against ourselves with the "Man in the Mirror," looking at ourselves critically, "Black or White," what does it mean to get caught in a color as opposed to a rich history and culture?

I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

America is like the greatest hit of the world.

I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown.

I'm extremely happy about music altogether, and the history that I've made. How I changed the world, music-wise, music over the internet and stuff like that.

Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.

He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)

In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment.

Um, well my main profession is acting and music is what I love doing. It's kind of nice like that in a way because it means I'm under no real pressure with the music. I have got complete creative control and I can make whatever I want. So, that takes a lot of the pressures off because there's no financial pressure. And it's something I've always loved doing.

Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.

It's a completely different way of working when you have your own place for recording. It's like if you were a painter, and you do loads of painting, and you just pick which paintings you want to exhibit. It's a much nicer, freer way of making work; you're not limited to anything, and you can make these cool, weird little albums.

Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he's always crying.

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.