Music Revival Quotes

When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.

The film, 'Searching For Sugar Man,' has excited my music career.

It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really wanted me to go back on stage and do the Supremes music, so I went about trying to make it happen. We'll go on tour in the summer.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

Bruce Springsteen gave people faith in rock & roll and in themselves again.

I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.

I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.

People have had the idea to do a '90s alternative tour for a long time. I didn't come up with that; I was the first guy to basically say it was time.

I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

I've created a new sound. I've actually brought back dancing and vibes; it's more universal.

It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.

Rock n' roll's not dead.

I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.

We've become an underground thing for kids, because we never got the love our peers got back in the day. Kids are loving discovering us, and I'm happy to be that band.

You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987.

I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.

When music is crashing around us, when you hear the same five songs on the radio that aren't really saying much, we can always go back to great music. Great music always lives on.

I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.'

I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave.