17 Quotes by Alan Light

In country and R&B, there's much more of that division between writers and performers, and that's where you see more of those [crossover] songs, but you don't get a lot of that coming out of the more pop and rock side of things.

It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's the 21st century and music doesn't mean the same things to people and that it's so disposable.

After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.

He just digs himself deeper into a hole no matter when he does it.

I think when it comes down to actually, who's actually going to win on Wednesday, I think Alicia Keys will win probably three or four awards or so.

I think the single thing that George brought was his interest in and introduction of Indian music into rock and roll,

To 18-year-olds who control what gets played on the radio, Michael is someone their parents listen to.