Music Similarity Quotes

Anyone who likes Static-X will definitely like my solo record.

My mum is quite young, so we actually have similar taste in music.

There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.

Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.

Guys like Future and me, we help create and shape the sound of music - not just Atlanta music, but music all over. If you really pay attention to the music being made, a lot of that is very heavily influenced by the stuff that we created. I listen to so many songs that's like, 'Damn, this sounds like my music!'

I've never shied away from country. 'Karma Chameleon' verges on country. Reggae and country are very closely linked. If you go to Jamaica, you hear a lot of country music. There's a correlation.

When I think about 'Since U Been Gone,' I think the first thing that comes to mind is 'Livin' On A Prayer' - they're kind of like sisters, a little bit. And 'Call Me Maybe' was so wildly original, and so quirky, and so satisfying.

If you make rock music with guitars in it, the Radiohead comparison is inevitable.

The similarity between my music and The Beatles' music is it has within it a very positive quality. It's woven with humor.

People hear a powerful female singer in a rock and roll band, and they say, 'Janis Joplin.' I think people just make that comparison because it's easy. But I don't think I sound like her at all.

Hip-hop and country aren't too far different: They got shiny suits and the boots and the guitars with their names on it. I was infatuated with that type of stuff.

The music is the same if you go all the way back to the first albums I made or the middle or whatever. The thing that's different is the lyrics.

There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time.

I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

You'd be surprised. Drummers ape each other. The way every rock n' roll record sounds like something else but not all together. Everything other drummers play, if you're playing drums, they all hear.

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together.

I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.

You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.

We've been waiting for a format like triple-A where you can hear Crowded House, Joni Mitchell and R.E.M.

I saw a band called The Electric Guitars, from Bristol. I described them to Roland, and he just started playing a riff on guitar and said, 'Do they sound like this?' And they did.