Mark Salling Quotes

I try to steal something from the great singers. Of course, I don't want to imitate their sound, but I try to do a sort of compromise.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

We don't need another Woody. Even Bob Dylan knew he couldn't be Woody Guthrie... I like Woody Guthrie fine, but I don't need the 50th generation version of it.

I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.

I'm glad Wu-Tang was able to inspire other producers and artists, but I would never want to be erased or removed.

We should pray and seek for knowledge which would enable us to portray and project the things we love in music, in a way that might wholly or in some part, be appreciated as having been conceived and composed or performed and presented with dedication and in positive taste

I think it's really hard to describe music without alienating somebody.

I find myself more genuinely drawn to the essence of Beethoven in Schnabel than I ever have been by anybody.

People would always ask me how I came up with my music and what it felt like to make music, and I would always see colours, and then I found out that that was synaesthesia. It helps me understand songs and what I like.

The reason I can achieve so many different feelings is because the people I listen to have always been so diverse.

I was doing some research and stuff and reading about Bowie. When he referred to his music as 'plastic soul,' I was like, 'That is the coolest thing I've ever heard.'

It's incredible how much beauty exists in the world of music and how many artists you can really inspire with your own work.

I try to take whatever I can from the songs I grew up listening to, these vibed-out pop numbers, and make them my own in some weird way.

I don't think there's such a difference between older and newer music as there is between one composer and another.

I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.

I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.

Music is nothing but sound, and there is no place for value judgement among various sounds.

The thing that makes me want to proceed and finish a song is when it really touches me and makes me feel something.

For me, influences really come from everywhere: literature, comics, movies, anime, Internet, science, real-life situations. In fact, I think that writing is just about living.

In my own life, I share my home with works by artists like Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Jackie Windsor and so many others, whose creativity is clear and fresh and compelling; the works break through the usual, and they inspire creativity; they inspire responses and understanding.