Shooter Jennings Quotes

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

I want to make an album my grandma and my fans are going to like. I want to make my grandma understand a drop and make club fans understand a song.

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.

I like to enjoy good music. I like Michael Jackson; I don't care who wrote the songs.

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in my teens. I did my first record, which was an old standard called 'My Mother's Eyes.' It was the old Georgie Jessel theme. I heard it on local radio out of Newark. And it was very exciting!

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

I hope I don't give music a bad name.

I like to make great albums.

I know right now she has no idea who I am, but I'd like to collaborate with Enya one day. Of course I'd love to work with Jay-Z, maybe even Phil Collins. I love his voice.

There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.

I'm a genuine lover of music. I've always watched the Grammys from home.

I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.

I really just dabble in music; I really just did a few albums for my fans.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.

The only album that I listen to upon recording a new one is my 'Cry' album, because sonically, I think it's my best album to date. But other than that, I've never listened to my records, ever.

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.