In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music.
Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.
The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.
The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.
No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.
Having that music around us all the time, it was so inspiring. But at the same time, I was a kid. I didn't pay attention to any of it. I'd get on the drums and hit them a few times, and then go outside and play.
They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.
I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.
When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.
I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.
I'm interested in exploring various forms of newer media that might allow those who otherwise don't listen to country to find and connect with my music.
Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all us kids had to be in the church choir.
My first introduction to pop music was probably the Osmonds, the Jackson 5, the BeeGees... Then the Beatles eventually. My father was pretty specific about what we listened to early on.
When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.
I love making music, though. I love playing.
Music was a means through which I could meet people and sort of begin the process of exploring who I was or who I could be.
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
It's VH1, it's everywhere, and you know music is just the world right now. People love music.
Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.
I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.
Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.
I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.
I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.
The snappy way I would sum it up is not everyone is queer, but everyone has felt different. And I think that is something that people can really relate to in our music.
We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.
Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.
These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it.
The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.
I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.
