Classic Sound Quotes

I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better production, but I like songs that sound like they're timeless.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

When we do R&B midtempos or ballads, there's an Underdogs sound.

There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

I'm a fan boy when it comes to Michael Buble. He's just so good at 'it'. He's got a voice of this generation, but he's like a time capsule; he's got a voice that could have fit in anywhere over the last hundred years. It's stellar.

In the beginning, I was so inspired by the music. I had the option to make something modern with classic undertones, but I wanted to make something that was exactly like that old sound.

You look back at people like Elvis and The Beatles and still get their music because it's timeless. That's what I want.

A guitar is a guitar. Whether it was made yesterday or 51 years ago, if it's good, it will stand the test of time.

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.

James Brown's music still sounds as fresh and as good and as new as it did when he first created it.

It's rooted in things that maybe older people or people my age remember as being rock music. But at the same time, I don't think we're stuck in the past or retro. I think we've tried to push ourselves and experiment with what we can call Wilco music.

I want to reach back to when R&B meant something, to when it made impressions on people.

I'm constantly trying to create timeless music that many people can gravitate to.

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality that isn't necessarily now.

With 'Hail To The King' - our last album - we obviously wore our influences on our sleeve, and it was a blatant attempt to turn on our younger generation of fans to more classic-sounding metal.

Soul music is timeless.

With 'The Xpose,' the main challenge was to create timeless melodies. The thriller is set in the '60s, and we didn't want the songs to sound dated.

I think there is always room for a timeless sounding rock band like us.

Also in Norah Jones, now there's a voice that sounds and I don't mean disrespect but sounds a hundred years old that sounds incredibly experienced. It's just an exciting time.

What I did in '06 with 'Port of Miami' was classic for that era, for that time frame, and in 2017, 'Rather You Than Me' will be the same.

You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday.

The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.