Make music a service that's easy to consume, and there'll be plenty of money for everyone. — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
On occasion, I hear a rearrangement of a song that really makes me reevaluate it in a way. — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself. — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going. — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Every once in a while, we have some sort of movement in music that everyone suddenly wants to work in, like grunge… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
The New York Dolls did not think of themselves as punk rock. There was no such term at the time. They were… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I was in… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I'm a guitar player, really - I mean, first and foremost - I grew up with all that great 1960s music, in… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Many of us would probably not be in the music business - or never would have been in the music business -… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
It's no longer necessary to slave over the vocals. I don't sing the lyrics until I write them, and singing is the… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
You would have thought that as you got older the voice would tend to deteriorate in some ways, but I always look… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I've been essentially not only deconstructing and reconstructing the material to make it suitable for the performance, but I've gone back and… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
It was always remarkable to me how ignorant the labels were of the listening habits of their own customers, and how obstinate… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when radio was less formatted. It was really special. You could hear… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I really consider myself fortunate to have been of age during the musical revolution that came in the form of the Beatles.… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an album of… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Because of the way the record business has kind of stumbled and disintegrated, in a way, you're as likely to sell records… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
The Nazz survived for 18 months - that was my first taste of fame on some level and of the overall experience… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
There's only one band that could ever even pretend to assume the mantle of what the Beatles did, who have been so… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
When the Beatles first came out, you had to go to a certain amount of trouble to have long hair. You just… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
'Something/Anything?' was kind of a different record, since I'm playing everything myself. A lot of the songs on there have a particular… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
If you're familiar enough with my body of work, my voice is a familiar totem, in a sense. I guess I have… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Music is the way I understand how to communicate now, the way that I've learned how to communicate... but it will eventually… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I suppose people also have to be a little more careful or circumspect if they're going to leverage their celebrity to promote their political… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share
It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share
Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates. — Todd Rundgren Copy Share
I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb. — Todd Rundgren Copy Share
The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over from the… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share
By the time my first solo record came out, I was making a handsome living as a record producer. I had worked with the… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share
Music gets recorded usually in one format, and when you have to take it out and perform it there are other applications and things… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share
Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share
As much as I'd like to be listening to other things, I can't do that until I get all of this sort of put… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share
It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share
When the Beatles first came out, you had to go to a certain amount of trouble to have long hair. You just couldn't have… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share
People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share
When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop. — Todd Rundgren Copy Share
I'm a guitar player, really - I mean, first and foremost - I grew up with all that great 1960s music, in terms of… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share
