Seasonal Music Quotes

The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

Producing a dark Christmas album in the middle of the summer is a very interesting process, especially if you are doing it by the turquoise Caribbean Sea.

The opening solo on 'Once in Royal David's City' is still the most dramatic radio moment of the year.

It is always weird to be in the studio working on Christmas music in June and July, so we decorated the entire studio, we really did. We brought out lights, fake trees and decorated the place to get in the Christmas spirit. You'd leave the studio, and it'd be 100 degrees out in Nashville, but nonetheless, a great experience.

Maine is a movable music festival in the summertime.

Kenny G has a Christmas album out this year. Hey, happy birthday Jesus! Hope you like crap!

"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day," which I actually recorded on "Quality Street" because I don't think anyone has ever covered it before. You hear it every single Christmas, and it is a great record. That's by Wizzard. It is a really great record, but I don't think anyone's ever covered it before, so I had to go it doing it differently. It's quite different from how the original goes.

Fans talk to me about how 'Country Christmas' has become a holiday tradition for them and that they all watch to start their holiday season. To be a part of people's holiday traditions is a real joy.

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.

I love all holiday music. My two favorites would probably be Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" and Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song." They epitomize Christmas for me. Those two recordings will never be touched. That's why I've never redone them.