That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.
If I could, I'd sing old French songs or American folk music, but I sure as hell can't do it as well as Mississippi John Hurt - no way in hell am I getting near that!
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.
We heard later through the grapevine that we were being compared to the Furious 5, and because of that we were getting feedback that they were saying that we werent all that, that we were copying them... blah blah blah.
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.
Favorite movie of all time? I hate being asked... that's like being asked, 'What's your favorite song?'
'Tim Timtya' was different from what I usually do. I had to develop a texture to go with the song. In fact, many told me I sounded like Shreya Goshal, which came as a pleasant surprise. Transitioning from tracks like 'Sunny Sunny' to this one was quite different.
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.
My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.
As for the way we play, we are as much like the Beatles as any American Jazz group is like any other.
I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.
If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.
I had left 'Ragtime' - and 'Ragtime' was a completely different beast, no pun intended, than 'The Lion King'.
If you were to ask me about a mistake I have made, it's calling my fourth album, 'New Jersey', because for the first time in my life, we were compared to the E Street Band.
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater.
Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.
The audiences used to say, 'Are you a Donovan fan or a Dylan fan?' It was all very naive, really.
Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.
I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.
I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis.
