Song Quotes by Todd Rundgren

On occasion, I hear a rearrangement of a song that really makes me reevaluate it in a way.

— Todd Rundgren

Make music a service that's easy to consume, and there'll be plenty of money for everyone.

— Todd Rundgren

My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.

— Todd Rundgren

People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

— Todd Rundgren

I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.

— Todd Rundgren

One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I was in…

— Todd Rundgren

The New York Dolls did not think of themselves as punk rock. There was no such term at the time. They were…

— Todd Rundgren

Every once in a while, we have some sort of movement in music that everyone suddenly wants to work in, like grunge…

— Todd Rundgren

Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is…

— Todd Rundgren

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

Many of us would probably not be in the music business - or never would have been in the music business -…

— Todd Rundgren

I'm a guitar player, really - I mean, first and foremost - I grew up with all that great 1960s music, in…

— Todd Rundgren

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

I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when radio was less formatted. It was really special. You could hear…

— Todd Rundgren

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

You would have thought that as you got older the voice would tend to deteriorate in some ways, but I always look…

— Todd Rundgren

It was always remarkable to me how ignorant the labels were of the listening habits of their own customers, and how obstinate…

— Todd Rundgren

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

The Nazz survived for 18 months - that was my first taste of fame on some level and of the overall experience…

— Todd Rundgren

My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an album of…

— Todd Rundgren

I really consider myself fortunate to have been of age during the musical revolution that came in the form of the Beatles.…

— Todd Rundgren

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

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

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

It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of…

— Todd Rundgren

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

When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested…

— Todd Rundgren

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

'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

When the Beatles first came out, you had to go to a certain amount of trouble to have long hair. You just…

— Todd Rundgren

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

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