Paul Ryan’s love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades.
Our music is never going to stop someone from bullying someone else. But you should be your own person.
Our music is a get-up music. Get you up music, uplift your spirit. That’s what I’m trying to give you.
I want people to get positive energy from our music.
It seems like Weezer has gotten better and better at getting attention for everything besides our music. Part of that is just the nature of our culture now – you really have to scream to get some attention, so people even know you have a record out that they might want to listen to.
The world is becoming more global, and our music is reflecting that.
We just hope to reach out to our fans and give them more hope through our music and content.
Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.
We had so many of our fans tell us how worthless they felt before they found out about us and watched our interviews and listened to our music.
We’ve been lucky with our music; people have liked it.
Our music is being played on MTV and the radio. That’s something that still blows us away. And we did it our way.
Jeezy just recognized my grind, and I jumped on board with him to enhance it. Artistically, we’re in the same mind frame. We come from very similar backgrounds – poverty. That’s something that we can both relate to, something that we can convey in our music.
I mean, you go to the internet and you can see all these conversations and arguments that our fans have about our music and that’s wonderful to know, that people would take the time to be that involved.
Our music is all about making music for the party. We don’t call it music, we call it tools – tools for the party.
What’s most important to us is that our fans listen to and enjoy our music. That alone makes us happy enough.
Often, with our music, there’s quite a lot going on, so people hear melodies that sound up and catchy, and production, and maybe don’t really listen to what the songs are about, so it’s nice to sing a song like ‘The Currents’ and really mean it.
We were worried at first that our music and message wouldn’t get across because we were singing in Japanese. But as we continued doing world tours, we realized and felt that music surpasses such things as language barriers, countries and race.
Whatever we were saying in our music had to represent something and really stand for something. I just wanted to do something with purpose.
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it’s third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it’s much more polite.
If somebody told me people would still care about our music 25 years ago, I would have thought they were crazy.
I just lived openly, as loud as I wanted to be, which translated into our music really well.
It would be really great if our music continues to touch people. Once your heart is moved, it will develop to something better and positive.
We want to get our music out to the widest audience possible and working with a massive paper like The Mail On Sunday will definitely help us achieve that.
Odisha people are very musical. Our music industry has got many talented artists from Odisha. They love music a lot.
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don’t even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don’t like it.
We don’t really have more than acouple of solos. It’s just the way our music is put together.
I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
We come from a more alternative rock band background, and it’s interesting to see the things that people think we should or shouldn’t do since our music is a little bit poppier.
We’ve noticed that even though we sing in Japanese, our fans study Japanese and sing along with us, and that people who like J-pop and people who like metal both enjoy our music just the same.
What we look for when we need to find someone who can fit in with our music, the vocals and the harmonies and the way they blend are very important to us because if you listen to Beach Boys music, the harmonies, not only are the notes being sung, but there’s a blend to it. The voices have to blend.
My object is to make people happy with our music.
I think that our work and our music stands on its own without this knowledge about our identity around it. But I also think that we very consciously decided not to hold back that part of ourselves, but to be very vocal about who we are, kind of what experiences we’ve had in life, and how we identify.
You can equate our music to childbirth. It’s brutal and harsh, but there’s still a beautiful thing occurring.
Having to deal with people all of a sudden knowing who we were and knowing our music and all the rest of it was definitely something that we had to get used to.
It was easy for people to be derisive about our music because they saw what we were doing as retro. But we were like barbarians trying to crash the gates of the bloated progressive rock that we despised.
Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses.
This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn’t otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.
I think that for a lot of us gay people, we do feel that pop is our music. We identify with it and its iconography, and that’s been a tradition.
Our music contradicts our look.
It sounds kind of cliche, and a lot of people say it about our music, but I think a good place to hear our music for the first time is on vacation, or somewhere warm, on the beach or something like that.
