Musical Expectations Quotes

It's hard to live up to The Beatles. When Wings toured, they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly.

My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.

When you expect anything from music, you expect too much.

Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock

If you are going to take me a to a musical, you'd better give me three songs that I'm gonna like. Nobody goes to the opera for the recitative. They go for the aria.

People expect me to do the classics, and it is a lot like playing a favorite song.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

I kind of feel like with a musical, there's so few original musicals that people just don't know what to expect.

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

During those years with the Iron Maidens, I felt I had to be great and really prove myself at every single show.

I listen to all sorts of music, but I'm not musically talented. Everyone expects me to be a good singer or musician, but I really am terrible. I'm a great dancer, though.

I feel like my best music is still ahead of me, and I can't wait for everyone to hear it.

I want people to know that I won't just assume that people will like my music.

You either evolve or you don't. I don't like old people on a rock n' roll stage. I think they look pathetic, me included. And the fact that I represent an era means I can't just go out there and do all new stuff. They would all say, 'Sing 'White Rabbit,' and I'd say no? That's rude.

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

There's nothing worse than looking out and seeing some guy with his arms crossed while you're singing your heart out on a new song, and he's going, 'When are they going to do 'Me and My Gang?''

I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.

I had known that people would probably have strange reactions to my voice, because I have kind of an unwieldy, difficult voice, but I never thought that anybody would have a problem with the harp. I just assumed... C'mon, it's a beautiful instrument.

Because you've been exposed to Western tonal music, you know after a certain chord sequence what the next possibilities are. Your brain has compiled a statistical map of which ones are most likely and least likely. If the song keeps hitting the most likely notes, you'll get bored, and if it's always the least likely ones, you'll get irritated.

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

I think, for every artist, the second album is the most terrifying one to put out because it can either boost your career, and everybody can't wait until your third album, or the second one is terrible, and 'He probably hit a plateau on his first one.'

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.

I feel like this: When you call me in to do something with you, you must want me to do soul-singing. Because you know I'm a soul singer. Don't ask me to come in and rap. And don't ask me to come in and sing pop.

The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.