Musical Competition Quotes

I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, 'If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!' And then the roller rink, and you work your way up branch by branch.

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

In the sixties when Paul was with the Beatles and I was with the Moody Blues, we shared the same bill and tried to blow each other off the stage.

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

Whenever I go jamming, people are looking to cut me. The young ones learn my stuff and come play it at me, and I have to learn other stuff. I feel a lot of pressure. But it's cool. It's a good pressure.

I am not anyone's brother, and I only have one younger sister. I don't consider my counterpart rappers as my brothers.

We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.

When we toured with AC/DC, we always had to bring our A game. They really felt like our equals.

I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.

I would do a 'Pitch Perfect 29', where the Bellas take on the Spaniards instead of the Germans. All the girls would have to learn Spanish. I'll teach them!

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

People think this is a competition between bands, when the reality is the more successful bands the better.

I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.

I liked playing drums in the band, but the truth is, I always knew they were going to call Joey to play drums.

As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it...it's a humbling experience.

Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it

I did grow up with Michael Landau, my brother since we were 12 years old. That was competition but in the best way. He is such a monster, always was, and we had a blast growing up playing in bands and early recording and are still the best of pals.

There were a lot of gifted amateurs in my day. Most of the kids now play fantastically well. I think there are so many bands around now who might get there, but it's a tougher journey.

For me, I would get so frustrated because I would see these other bands just whip by us.

At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.

Music was everything. Now it is just not as important as it used to be. When I was growing up, where everyone was trying to outdo each other by being more outrageous and sounding more different, now there is a homogeneous sameness to it all.