If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.
I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.
We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music.
Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it.
I think I still want to be a music director as a grown man.
I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
Internet, for all its faults, exposed me to a lot more music.
I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.
'Shelby Star' is going great. We shot a music video, and I'm building an app and some other things for the project.
I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.
I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.
In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.
I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.
I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
In general, I probably have a shy nature. So the idea of poking out with my music is probably not something I want to do.
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.
Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.
I grew up in my neighborhood with salsa, of course bachata, but also hip-hop, Nirvana - it was just like a mixed culture. It was a beautiful thing for me because at the moment I started creating music, having all these different sounds and elements, it was very organic because I grew up with all these types different music.
I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I'm going to invest in music.
And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.
I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music.
I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences.
The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder sometimes whether all music actually comes from women, whether the first glimmering of music is a mother soothing a baby.
I started off making music that made fun of pop; now I'm nominated for helping produce pop songs that aim to be as honest as possible.
Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
I dedicate all my time to music. And I'm glad that it's paying off in some ways.
To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.
If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.
There is such an advantage to self-releasing. If you can do it yourself, it's the best way to go. In Europe and the rest of world outside the U.S., I have licensed my music to labels. But it's amazing because I still own all the masters. I didn't have to give up any of those rights. I have 100 percent creative control.
I'm a huge fan of not overemphasising with music.
You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great.
I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.
Personally, I'm a big fan of Ryan Tedder. He has amazing music.
I stay up too late pretty much every night working on music.
