David Ogden Stiers Quotes

Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.

I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay. I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Music is a continual learning process. One finds new insights all the time. For me, it began at a very early age; from the beginning, there was something besides the notes.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.

I had no interest in music. But now, music means everything to me. I have no words to explain how beautiful music is. It is where you can create everything, like beautiful songs to sad songs to almost anything.

Playing with Iggy pulled me back in for a while and reminded me of what I love about music.

Music was the first art form I ever had.

With so many genres, music is so diverse, which is why it is an exciting thing to do in life.

Making music is all about forgetting about everything around you.

Ultimately, you're looking for a soulful experience when you listen to any form music.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.