Timeless Music Quotes

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

They're great instrumentalists, singers and songwriters and they have this unique way of blending contemporary with traditional. The result is this beautiful mix of timeless music.

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

I want to write for people that are trying to do some kind of quality music. What I mean by quality music is not so much the trend, what is hot right now. I don't write trendy, I write what feels good and something that feels good will never get old. Timeless music is what I try to shoot for.

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.

Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group that almost singlehandedly brought rock up to a level of jazz-like sophistication and virtuosity, introducing it as a medium worthy of the soloist's art. Oral histories can be tricky things: either penetrating, delivering information and backstories that get to the heart of how timeless music was made. Or too often, they lie flat on the page, a random retelling of repeated facts and reheated yarns. I'm happy to say that Paul's is in that first category.

I don't make summer jams or albums based on time or seasons; my goal is to make quality music, timeless music.  I'm not looking at the calendar.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.