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7898 Musician Quotes

When you go out on stage and you greet the crowd, there's nothing like it.
Crowd Go Greet Like
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We're a young, married couple, and we go through all the ups and downs that every couple goes through; we're no different.

Couple Different Downs Every
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I think our music reflects us and has grown with us, and as our fans have grown, too.
Fans Grown I Think Music
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My brothers and I have basically grown up on screen, and we feel so blessed and lucky because it's been amazing.

Amazing Basically Because Been
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You learn very quickly where you feel fulfilled and where you don't.

Feel Fulfilled Learn Quickly
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We all had our strengths. I focused on mine, which was kind of the business side of things and more about the touring and the creative... Nick was all about the music, and Joe was about the entertainment aspect and the music.

About Aspect Business Business Side
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My bag explodes with clothes all over my hotel room floor every day.

Bag Clothes Day Every
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I carry cards because I don't like cash.
Because Cards Carry Cash
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I was a total nerd and had, like, two friends, and then I left my school and got signed to a record deal.

Deal Friends Got Had
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I've always, like, wanted two kids that were both girls, and my wife was like, 'Why?' I'm like, 'Because I've been around boy so much my entire life that I want to be surrounded by, you know, girls.'

Always Around Because Been
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It's not your responsibility to comment on parenting for others. I would hate if someone did that to me.

Comment Did Hate Me
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I want healthy children.

Children Family Healthy Want
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My ring represents a promise to myself and to God that I'll stay pure until marriage.

God Marriage Myself Promise
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There was something in Nick, becoming the Broadway star that he was and working from the age of 7, being on Broadway for four years, and then doing the music.

Age Becoming Being Broadway
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My parents have sacrificed so much, more than any parents really should.

Any More Much Parents
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I am blessed that I get to do this thing I love to do, and if I wasn't doing this, I'd probably be working as Starbucks. So the fact that I get to travel around on a tour bus all around the country is pretty awesome.

All Around Am Around Awesome
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We're not one of those groups who have one song on the radio and, boom, they're an instant success. We worked hard from day one and didn't get a lot of respect, possibly because of the way we were marketed.

Because Boom Day Day One
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Ever since me and the brothers no longer make music together, I stepped aside, and I've been doubling down here in the tech world.

Aside Been Brothers Down
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For my 21st birthday, my now-wife, at the time girlfriend, flew across the country and showed up at my house.

Across Birthday Country Flew
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The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us signed, you know, so it was either luck, fate, or something in between.

Between Come Did Either
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We were definitely new to the whole music thing. The first album was a real collaborative effort between us, the writers, and the A&R people at Columbia Records. We really worked to find out what our sound was.

Album Between Collaborative Columbia
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You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

Baby Connect Connection Passion
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The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.

Days First Half Including
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Really, each part, each one of us, I think, has our role, but I think for Joe, he really stands out and has that Mick Jagger-esque feel to him.

Each Each One Feel He
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Moms are sometimes the craziest because they know they want to get their daughters to be seen by us or get an autograph.

Autograph Because Craziest Daughters
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For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Darkness Gets Healing Hurt
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At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.

Because Celebrating Family Friends
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I think it's a wonderful time for a woman.
IThink Think Time Woman
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I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

About Bothered Come Deal
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My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

Alive Ask Close Daddy
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I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Famous Great Never Only
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The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.

About Anything Done Fact
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Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

Becomes Cheap Love Love Is
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I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or wat

Arrived Blood Born Food
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

Affluence Any Borrow Flour
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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Buried Childhood Darkest Dug
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I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

Being Black Blind Did
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My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.

Became Big Big Thing Declaring
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There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.

Explore First Here Life
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I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.

Able Been Happened Hear
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Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

After Around Been Behind
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What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

Electricity Force Know Light
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There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles

Believe Bible Going Me
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What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

Approach Blues Country Country
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Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory

Braille Damn Develop Ear
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Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
Academy Highest Honor Life
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So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you.

Come Getting Going IThink
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I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

Because Car CDs Everybody
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You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

Get Know Lot Me
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But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

Demos Finished FinishedProduct Going
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