I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.
I believe that in music and in a lot of things it's kind of like surfing, you can have a really big wave sometimes and then you can have a smaller wave.
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Music is a reservoir... of sounds.
The music scene is more competitive in the States.
If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.
Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.
To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.
Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.
I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.
What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.
I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years.
I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.
Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well.
