Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.
We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.
In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.
When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.
I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.
Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
The music I used to make was a lot more rock, so I come from this background of head banging a lot, and it took me a while to figure out how to do it in the context of our music.
Progressive metal is one of the hardest styles of music to pull off live, especially while providing a tasteful show.
Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
I think, in America, for a long time you had groups that wanted to be stars more than they wanted to make music.
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
I don't like to rush my music.
But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
I like to write music. And I think exploring with lyrics and figuring out how to make complete songs is fun. I think I have a take on it. I don't know if it's great, but it's an interesting take. It's original.
Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.
I don't need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It's the music and it's always been about the music.
We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.
As a musician, you want the music in as many hands as you can get it into. More importantly, I want people to get the music for the fairest price, and in the most convenient way. And that's really turned into iTunes when you're talking about selling albums.
I enjoy music and cooking and cartoons and many other things.
The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.
I'm playin' the music I like.
We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.
Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now.
I never heard anything so brilliant in my life as I did that first time I heard Ornette. He played like some revolutionary angel. Soon, we were rehearsing in his place, music scattered everywhere, and he was telling me to play outside the chord changes, which was exactly what I had been wanting to do. Now I had permission.
My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.
I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
Great music seems to come from a lot of angst, and that angst is from great musicians getting together with intense chemistry. When that chemistry isn't there, people tend not to write great music.
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
