Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.
I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.
All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!
You can't play music and be mad at anybody. It'll show in your heart!
I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.
When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.
There's a Kiss through-line to a lot of the music that came out of Seattle, and it hasn't been talked about a lot.
I entered music at a poppy level.
My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.
I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.
At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what do you do?' Turns out I was speaking to legendary music producer Quincy Jones, who worked on Michael Jackson's hits. And there was little old me rattling on - I was so embarrassed.
Music is where I started. It's kind of the base of everything.
The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.
I expect to make a career out of country music.
I think music sharing of any kind is great.
When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning and realize that I don't have the proper sauce for it, fame is of no use.
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
I have a very difficult time describing my music.
I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.
The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.
We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.
My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.
My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old music.
Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that people don't know about.
English music is white - it evades everything.
I've never seen the devil create music.
Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life - into music, into the pulpits, in churches of our country. It spilled over into the city streets, police forces. And even if you were born late in the generation, Vietnam was still part of your childhood.
A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.
The older I get, the more interest I have in writing other kinds of music.
I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.
In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.
