Music Quotes by H.notes News Editor - Rena75@hanson.net and H.notes Staff Writer - erin7005@hanson.net

David Bowie
“I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does. There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.”

Alice Cooper
“When I go onstage as Alice to this day, I play Alice to the hilt — I play him for everything he is worth, but when I'm offstage, I never think about Alice Cooper. He never occurs to me.”

Don Henley, The Eagles
"The theme of all our albums is looking for it, whether it be a woman, or peace of mind, or satisfaction, or success, riches or happiness, or any of that."

Dave Gilmour, Pink Floyd
“I like our music to feel three-dimensional. It's about trying to invoke emotions in people, I suppose. You feel larger than life in some sort of way. Let's face it none of us in Pink Floyd are technically brilliant musicians, with great chops who can change rhythms, fifteen or sixteen bars here, there and everywhere. And we're not terribly good at complicated chord structures. A lot of it is just very simple stuff dressed up. We stopped trying to make overtly 'spacey' music and trip people out in that way in the 60's. But that image hangs on and we can't seem to get shot of it.”

Angus Young, AC/DC
"We never thought of ourselves as a 'heavy metal band' we've always regarded ourselves as a rock band. The big difference we've always thought we had a lot more feel for rock, we always went out for songs, not riffs or heavy, heavy sounds. But every now and again it does come on like a sledge hammer."

Steven Tyler Aerosmith
"We weren’t too ambitious when we started out. We just wanted to be the biggest thing that ever walked the planet."

Bryan Adams
"I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star."

Lindsay Buckingham
“There's a chemistry. Fleetwood Mac is a band of chemistry. It always has been. None of us are schooled; we're a bunch of primitives who have honed their art by doing it a long time and by having sensibilities that oddly mesh in a way you wouldn't expect. It just works.”

Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin
“How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?”

Roger Daltrey, The Who
“Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.”

Greg Lake, Emerson, Lake, & Palmer
"For me, music is a spiritual experience. If there is one thing that I have learned during my career, it is that in order to make great music, it is not enough to simply be a great musician, you must also be a good human with an honest soul."

Stevie Wonder
"I'm a lover of music, constantly curious about the sounds I hear. I'm always thinking anout how I can take my music to the next level. It isn't about selling millions of albums or making millions of dollars. God has given me an incredible gift -- the gift of music -- and it's a blessing that's self-contained."

Jackson Browne
"I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe -- and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it. It's a way of examining my feelings and my perceptions and my situation and coming up with something about it, like saying where I am in the world in relation to those things. And some of the songs I wrote when I was really young are some of my best-known songs, and other people still sing 'em; I still sing 'em. The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done."

Bruce Springsteen
"I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage, I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also, I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock & roll. Somehow you got to believe both of those things."

Ric Ocasek
"I'm still involved in music. I don't miss the traveling every day. I don't miss the attention, either. It's nice for a good period of time, then it becomes overwhelming. The good thing about it is that you get a bigger worldview because, well, first you travel the world. And then you get a different perspective about people. Our success lasted quite a good span of time, twelve years of chaos. I like all that insanity."

James Taylor
"I believe that musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love –- or share pain with others. I think that we’re all totally isolated beings and always will be and we live in this kind of very removed state. Music can beat all these barriers down in a very temporary way and make us –- no, allow us to give each other love basically –- without sounding too much like a hippie."

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Isaac
“It's always hard to boil it down when you're making a decision like forming your own record company. I don't think it is ever one particular reason why, but if you could say that, I would say we felt like there are a lot of opportunities that are not being utilized in today's industry. And we felt like the best way for us to maintain our careers and continue to move forward and the best way to take control of those opportunities and seize them was to have our own record company. We felt like it was a freedom and a necessity that we needed. It also allows us to be much more free with content in a way that we couldn't have in the past.”

Zac
“You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from. The way we write our albums has always been the same. You just write songs.”