Musical Obsession Quotes

I think maybe the vehicle for me was 'Sam Cooke's Greatest Hits.' It has a song called, 'Touch the Hem of His Garment.' Do you know that song? I kind of got obsessed with that song and started exploring and getting more of his old recordings with the Soul Stirrers and really getting into that super, super deeply.

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

Music plays a big part in my life. I am a big music nerd.

When I was around 13 years old, I started playing in bands and became obsessed with Blink-182 and Newfound Glory. I didn't pay attention to country music anymore; I wanted to do more pop rock stuff.

The first time I heard Tom Waits, it was like everything just flipped. It was just this fascination with him. My cousin showed me 'Small Change,' and I just couldn't get over that this was a white guy singing.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything I do is because of music. I don't know anything else, I think about music before I go to sleep and it just really is everything that I am.

There's this cliché of always falling in love with the latest song, and I'm kind of like that.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

I was playing piano at three and started writing songs when I was six or seven, and I've been addicted since then.

Music is a spiritual expression of what's in your heart. Music as a way of getting rich is a pretty new thing, and I often wonder if the mega-bucks glitzy atmosphere is making the quality of music suffer. You have to work really hard to get around that and remember why you're in it in the first place: because you have to be. It's like an addiction. You can't go a day without picking up your guitar. To me, the only commercial goals that are really valid are, 'Boy, I wish I didn't have to go to work. I wish I could do this all the time.'

I'm still obsessed with Kiss. I'm still obsessed with Van Halen. I guess we don't change that much from being kids. Either we don't change that much, or we just have really good taste.

I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my mother… It was my father… It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life.

I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.

I'm involved in all things musical. It's all consuming, even if it doesn't necessarily manifest as a record or a concert.

Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors the way that I am putting the sentence together, going back over the same phrases again and again.

I'm obsessed with Stevie Nicks and I think she's awesome - everything from her music to her style.

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.

Music is my biggest passion and Ive just been obsessed with it. Like, always.

I was obsessed with 'The Velvet Rope' for a year straight, letting Janet Jackson's confessional lyrics lull me to sleep and comfort me when I felt lost. I felt that the album was the vehicle onto which Janet finally expressed her full self.

With me, I would never lose my sight of music.

I was addicted to playing music.

I was obsessed with 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' and I used to reenact it in my room when no one was home.

I'm really attracted to girls who are passionate about music because that's what I'm obsessed with.