Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else.
I'm really excited to put music out that is a clear projection of my lifestyle.
You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
I want to be able to touch people's heart through my music. I want to bring a smile on every face. In my own humble, small way, I want to touch lives.
I get satisfaction out of making a meal for people that I love and having them enjoy it. But there's not really anything in my life that I do that's just for me that feeds my soul like music does.
I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.
I don't use old music.
I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when you hear the entire thing... I think it would save the music business. It's such a drastic change.
I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's black music. To segregate films the way Hollywood likes to segregate films, ultimately everyone loses.
We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.
Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a chemical reaction.
It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music.
I've grown so much in the music industry. From 'GoldenHeart,' it was just about me and the music and me in this dream. With 'BlackHeart,' its more about me and who I am and what role I play in my own life and in the business.
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel like it's never going to happen again.
Music is my hustle.
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
I don't think I'm turning back the clock by doing these old tunes. I love rock and roll and popular music. It's just that the spirits of the singers whose songs I do are living within me. That's why the songs come out in the voices of the original singers. I'm not doing imitations. That's the way they sound inside me.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Lou Reed's spirit and the way he did things was so important. Him and his music mean so much to me as the years go by.
I see how people look at me, all around the world. They see something because of the race I belong to. I have to understand that and put it into my music.
When I get on the stage, I try to connect with the fans and offer them the best of the best. I want them to see it as a music journey.
I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.
I had done a cover of the song 'Nenani Neevani' and put it up on Sound Cloud, which Sunny M.R., the music composer of Rowdy Fellow, came across. He liked it and approached me for 'Yedho.'
In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.
My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.
Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.
I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.
Music is love in search of a word.
The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.
The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.
I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
We also listen to PJ Harvey; a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car.
Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.
I don't listen to my own music at home.
