Paul Rodgers Quotes

Music is still my main thing, but I will explore anything that's interesting and challenging.

I'm just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that.

Pushing yourself and digging into something new, that's what being a musician is all about.

For me, music is just one road. I dont have a specific pursuit; generally. I just try to be more aware of myself.

I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back.

My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.

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.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

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.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

Music fathoms the sky.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up.

Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.