Jonny Lang Quotes

When you get just that right audience and just that right sound on stage and you can just sit back and kinda just let it happen and it's not really any work. I love those moments. Nothing can beat that for me.

I'm glad I didn't know certain things earlier, because then it wouldn't be any fun.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

I don't want to be in love but you're makin' me

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

I didn't just want to put something out that I wasn't satisfied with.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

I think in the future I will end up doing a gospel album.

I moved from Minnesota out to Los Angeles and I thought I was going to hate it out there, but I really like it.

Who I am musically I hope will just keep changing and changing.

I really enjoy what I do and have been fortunate to pursue basically whatever I'm feeling at the time.

I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song.

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

I love all kinds of different music.

Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.

The things that mattered
Were broken and shattered
One by one

My passion is for playing music and although everyone needs a break sometimes just to keep things interesting and fresh, there's no way I would ever give that up.

It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course.

With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.

Cause I enjoy both, I enjoy recording and playing live, but yeah, the rush of playing live is really something.

I've literally become comfortable with approaching whatever style of music at any time.

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable.

I know you lost your faith in me but I still believe
Can I make you understand, can I make you see
I am desperate for your love and it's breakin' me

I have way too many songs that have music but don't have lyrics.

I truly loved you, but now I'm walking away

My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.

I definitely have a firm, fixed idea of what compromise is for me.

It seemed at first that everybody was more concerned with my age.

Yeah, but Jesus is the most important thing to me and I want to be bold about it.

I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that.

My soul can only take so much..

I wanted to have something that I was proud of and that I knew people would enjoy.

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

I think my favorite thing is the mystery of life - it makes you feel that much better about accomplishing something.

I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music.

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.

My dad used to play drums in a country band, and my mom is an incredible singer.

You know, being able to, in my mind, have a song that you know doesn't really have any loose ends or you know, extra fat in it, so to speak.

I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.