Music Repertoire Quotes

I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.

I tried to play anything people would hire me to play, because I was a musician.

I fancied being a lead singer. I've always done a lot of vocals, but obviously, Freddie is the lead singer.

I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician.

If you put out quality music, you're always going to be in a good place.

I learned Neil Young songs, Bob Dylan songs and older songs. It wasn't until I moved to Philly that I had aspirations to maybe forming a band.

I was always against starting the show with new material because the fans don't know it. They just look at you, and it's not explosive.

I remember starting out and covering songs.

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

That's the funny thing - if there was a year and half or two years of us being a band like every other band and then getting signed, we would probably have made 'Pretty. Odd.' as our first album instead.

I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.

Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and already made a profit.

For the first 12 years of recording I would finish the album, then on the day it came out I'd never hear the songs again.

I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.

You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on. It's the hardest thing.

I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love songs, epic songs, mystical songs, songs of leaving, songs of meeting, songs of wonder. I pretty much have got a song for every occasion.

When you put an album out, you can't do any material from the album if people are paying to see you.

A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must be wrong. Either the record company doesn't like your music, or you've been dropped. It has to something negative. It's not like you wanted to take a break, or want some balance, or smell the roses.

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.

Once you've been on tour six, seven years, you get an idea of what works and what doesn't work universally. There will be some crowds that we just can't play a song, but we've got 90% of a show that we know is going to be a hit with the Lupe Fiasco fan. I think the catering has already been done.

We've never been a band that gets up on stage and says, 'OK, we're going to play our entire new album.' Of course we want to introduce new music, but we also want to play the songs people want to sing along with.

The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.