Famous quotes by Musicians

"The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice"

"A fox is a wolf who sends flowers"

"You're only as good as your last record"

"In America, music is more tightly categorized"

"The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind"

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love"

"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die"

"Man is a universe within himself"

"The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory"

"If I'm free, it's because I'm always running"

"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes"

"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel"

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace"

"When I die, just keep playing the records"

"This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well"

"There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes"

"I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British"

"What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade"

"I'm still me even after all that's happened"

"I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water"

"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way"

"I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15"

"I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it"

"I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details"

"We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music"

"They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers"

"The first song is called "London." It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime"

"At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage"

"When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring"

"A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex"