I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.
Music is organized sound.
I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.
When we've toured with Skid Row and G N' R, we probably turned a few people on to our music, but I get the feeling at one of those shows you might snag maybe 10 percent of the people out there.
When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.
I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.
I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.
It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.
I'm nowhere with country music. I don't hear much of it, so I shouldn't venture an opinion, but when it finds me, it seems formulaic.
I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.
Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.
My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.
I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.
The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.
I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is more like a piano roll in a player piano than any type of sound recording.
Before I wasn't sure what I wanted to say, but now, I have had so many different experiences that they have given me what I want to get across in my music.
I think there's always been progressive R&B music.
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.
Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.
I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.
One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.
I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.
My taste changes radically all the time, and I listen to whatever feels good. Another thing is that I'm in the studio so much of the time, and I listen to so much loud, aggressive music for work, that for pleasure, I'll listen to something else.
From the minute I heard music I knew why I was born.
All of the great music ever written is based upon the Mass. I mean, it's pretty extraordinary stuff, and I think it's done the world some good. And if you take a look at some of the mosques in the world, it calls you to worship the kind of beauty that's in there.
Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is.
At times I make music, but in private.
