Murray Head Quotes

I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.

Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.

I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or 'Sherry,' I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

John Mayer would be my ultimate collaboration because he's just the man. He has basically captured all I believe in with music.

Some people say that if you do anything other than a straight-ahead groove, that it's not jazz. But that kind of labeling is wrong. Music is what it is; if it sounds good, it sounds good.

I think people really like my voice, the way I sing, the things I put in a song.

At the end of the day, I love singing, whatever the style might be.

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

I've always loved to sing.

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

I can't sing anything other than country!

I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.

Great music is great music, period.

When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.

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

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.

Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.