Steve Bisley Quotes

It's always so rewarding, gratifying to me, as an artist and a writer, to see how this music gets more important for a lot of people as time goes by. And it's not just nostalgia. It's a feeling of it's really relevant to their lives, even though it's 20 or 25 years old or more.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

I never met Johnny Cash personally, but I feel like I did because I listened to so much of his music, and even though he's gone, it's still there: you can go pull a vinyl record out and hear his personal thoughts and his voice and feel connected to him.

I definitely associate songs with the places that I've been.

Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.

When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.

You know how it is. Every time you kiss someone else, in a way you always remember that very first time.

A song can take you to a special time in your life.

You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life, and it really is like you're still there.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

Every one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a scrapbook or an old photograph. There are just songs that define certain moments in your life. Everyone has a song that got them through a bad breakup or they put on and it made them feel like they wanted to go out and kick the world's ass with their friends on a weekend. Those songs still feel like that to me.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.

Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

I still love it. I love lots of other music, too, and always have, but punk's the soundtrack of my youth. I think you never escape the music you're listening to and seeing when you're seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old.

It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.