Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.
I privilege the music over the lyrics.
It's what's missing, I think, from most music - the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is part of great rock music or great literature or any great creative stuff.
Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.
Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times.
My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.
We didn't have music videos. You weren't an overnight sensation. You had to work at it and learn your craft: how to take care of your voice, how to pace your concerts, all that trial and error.
I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.
I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that.
I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.
For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.
No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.
'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, you get traditional music that's had the words slightly modified, and you'll also get just original works that have been written about science fiction and fantasy works, or with science fiction and fantasy themes.
I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.
I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
There's so much nostalgia for music from the past.
I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.
When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music.
Anytime fashion and music go hand-in-hand and it really is an organic fit, it's amazing.
Music is about the performance.
When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
