I draw inspiration from my life, and, honestly, a lot of my religious beliefs have stemmed into my music.
San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.
I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.
I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.
Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.
If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.
A lot of people have told me along the way that my style and the music I do... is unmarketable. But the only reason I'm successful is because I have stayed true to myself.
If I read a script in the future that I feel like I could have a little fun with or that reflects me well, it may be one of those things that I try out. But, of course, music's my number one priority.
There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there's not, so it's really easy to get huge, empty spaces where you can practice and make music or make art for very, very cheap.
But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.
If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.
Garage rock is music for older people with young souls and young people with old souls. It's a certain sensibility, and you may have it when you're 17 or when you're 67.
As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.
One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out.
Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future.
Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house - he's nine years older than me.
I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.
Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.
Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.
I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like it. I know how fortunate I am.
I love singing. It makes me feel good. It's like a release, especially when I'm singing soul music.
There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?
I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
My producer, Michael Knox, he's kind of my eyes and ears on Music Row. While I'm out on the road, he's looking for songs, and then he and I will get together and go over songs.
Music can be a source of escapism.
I want people to hear the presence of God in the music.
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.
