As I rode my bike, music began to happen to me.
Music Quotes
I believe great art is discovered when you are consistent, a hard worker, and combine that with vision – your gift finds its home at some point.
Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.
Music always sounds better on Friday.
I wanted to be a conductor since I was a kid. I was obsessed with it, asked Santa Claus for a baton when I was 8.
We were five years into R.E.M., and I was going through profound depression and a nervous breakdown that took a year and a half to work through. We were still touring and making records and marching forward at this insane velocity, which didn’t help my situation at all.
That first B-52’s album still hasn’t gotten the recognition that it deserves as one of the most groundbreaking and influential records of all time—most certainly on me and everyone around the Athens scene.
George Martin made us what we were in the studio. He helped us develop a language to talk to other musicians.
My only regret with The Beatles is that I was wrongly advised and signed away my royalties to their records — about half a penny per title but, with them, that would have been an enormous amount.
When I was 9 or 10, my father got me a Goya guitar, and I started learning Spanish guitar. My first public appearance was at Kennywood Park in Pittsburgh. I was on a press junket for a TV series, Circus Boy, which was about a little kid in a circus who had a pet elephant. […]
