Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.
Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it's very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music.
Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.
Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
You should listen to a lot of different music.
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.
New Orleans has a unique history as a great melting pot of all kinds of cultures, and that manifests itself now through the food, the music, and the kinds of people who live there.
Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.
I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
I have new music coming out. I'm working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I'm doing my restaurant. I got a club coming in New York. The restaurant is called Doug E. The club is called Fresh.
Music is my first love.
In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.
Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.
I'm really passionate about music. I do love acting, but music is the end goal for me.
But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.
There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.
I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!
I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.
Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.
My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
I try to use my music to move these people to act.
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.
I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.
If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
For me, one I love the 80's, I love 80's music, I'm sort of a baby of the 80's, I grew up in the 80s.
I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.
Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.
