Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
The music industry is a very rough industry. Many years ago, I think it was even rougher in the sense that a lot of it was predicated on image.
Swavey, it puts more than one genre of music together. That's the approach I have with all music I do.
My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.
I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.
I'm a hip-hop head, but hip-hop actually introduced me to other genres of music because I started to wonder where a lot of these samples came from. So I fell in love with Bobby Womack or Willie Hutch because I wanted to know where those samples came from.
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'
I have always hated nightclubs, and don't like loud music.
People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.
What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.
I went to see 'Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman.' I have been a fan of his music for years, and I was invited to opening night because I know one of the producers.
Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.
I've always wanted to sing country music.
I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do.
Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.
I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you.
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect.
Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.
When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
In my films, I either want the music to be very subtle and very buried or just put it right out in front and be super blunt with it.
I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast.
People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.
It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.
I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music.
When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.
When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna get mellow, they're gonna get soft.'
