Musical Interests Quotes

I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.

I'm not a musician, I can't read music, but I came from a family of music fans. Not mad music fans, but people who like music. Both of my parents can play the piano. They were very good dancers, which I am not.

From a young age, I took an interest in the music and my mom noticed it.

I'm a variety girl when it comes to different genres.

When I was 13, when I was 14, when I was in England, yeah all I wanted to do was go and see The Who, go and see The Stones.

When I have downtime, music is a big part of my life. Not so much singing, but I play the guitar.

I love Hootie & the Blowfish and what we do, but that's not my main focus anymore.

Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing him, and my other interests stemmed off of that. Bernstein led me to Sondheim and to Gershwin, and Sondheim led me to listening to Joni Mitchell.

I like all types of music. Even though rap music is 80 percent of what I listen to, it's not the only thing I listen to.

I'm perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my household.

I'm too old for Led Zeppelin.

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

I've obsessed over a lot of bands in my time, and I'm sure I'll become infatuated with a lot more in the future.

I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.

I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.

My parents did not have any interest in music.

[Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be a ballerina or actress, was always the little one putting on the school plays, and [princess] Elizabeth reluctantly did it and got stage fright.

I come from a non-musical family.

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

I'm just tryna be honest about all the things that I dig in my music. It's not just this over here, it's also that over there.

I don't actually personally get off on guitar music.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

Strangely enough, when the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me' went to number 1, which was built around my 'Are 'Friends' Electric' song, I had another song called 'Rip' go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week.

I'm very lucky my parents were into different kinds of music.

I didn't tell my kids, 'You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.' They chose these things on their own, and I don't think we have to give kids every choice, but we do have to give them some choice because that autonomy is crucial for fostering passion.