My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song.
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.
Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert.
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.
I think there is great interest amongst the younger people in this music. I think that there is a lot of them that are looking for interesting situations and music that is stimulating.
Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
I don't even know how people managed without the Internet years ago. Having to mail a cassette tape of your music to strangers over the course of months... I just can't imagine having to do that.
I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.
I've never seen Madonna. I just grew up listening to her music - I want to see her.
Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
For me, the most fun times in this office are when we're listening to music. That's what you signed up for, not to just make deals.
Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.
Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.
People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.
Music and fashion are a sign of the times and a reflection of what people want and need at this very day and age.
Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways.
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
It's tough as an artist to have such a specific vision for your video in mind when you write a song. Reaching out to directors is like going on blind dates and trying to find someone who sees the exact vision behind your music, which can be really difficult.
Our music is never going to stop someone from bullying someone else. But you should be your own person.
I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.
I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.
You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's the last day of my life'... Such a large percentage of pop music is really about party time.
