Quotes About Control

In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'

No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Sir! Sir! I'm afraid your music is just too loud!

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

.. the whole idea is that if you turn your amp up to 10, you should still be able to play at a whisper - you've got to learn to control your hands

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.

Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.

The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed--he got a hard-on.