Music Quote by Al Kooper Download Open image “I liked being challenged by music. It's good for me.” — Al Kooper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Music
My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours,… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
It's a job, and it's challenging. But I love music and creating. That's why I got into music. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience. — Maya Beiser Copy Share Image
Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view,… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
If you'd done a good job you'd just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go. — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
The "Highway 61" album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I'm not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone". — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
The place that I worked I used to joke about it. There was a, every morning at 10:30 I'd come into work and I'd… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms. — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before. And… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
The first generation from the '50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks, I mean just out and out crooks. And… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
Before I debuted, it was my goal to make my debut, and afterwards, I aimed at winning champion titles on television music shows, and… — Hyuna Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I'm at the edge of the world, Where do I go from here? Do I disappear? Edge of the world, Should I sink or… — Bring Me The Horizon Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of people come out of Carol City, but I had this distinct vision for Carol City, just me coming out… — Denzel Curry Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Downloading's the same as what I used to do. I used to tape the charts of the songs I liked [off the radio]. I… — Liam Gallagher Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I want people to hear my lyrics and my melodies and say, 'That dude's in pain.' — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
I make dance music because I love to dance. But I want to think at the same time. — Stromae Copy Share Image