As long as people are buying music, it's good for everybody.
Music brings unity.
One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.
Being in music forever, I have good pitch, so I know when I'm singing in or out of tune. But the key to really good singing is just relaxing and thinking about what the song is.
I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.
It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.
I love music so much; I've always played.
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all.
I am just glad that I can take the music to the people who want to hear it. I love my audiences. I am deeply indebted to them for giving me the chance to sing my concerts, make records, and do what I love. Whatever people call it, it is great to have a voice!
We're also passionate about music and very critical about the music that we listen to.
I think it's exciting that fans can immediately pick up on what my music is about and what I'm leaning towards: that they get to actually feel it.
I think people are tired of fake music, man. And there's a lot of it. Technology has reached the point where any boob can walk into a studio and with a little AutoTuning you can have a hit song. I think it's pathetic.
In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.
What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.
Michael B. Jordan is actually cool. He's like the homie. I'm actually talking to him. He reached out to me a while ago and just showing love for the music after 'TRaPSOUL' dropped.
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
I've seen music and songs used in stories, and while sometimes it works really well, often it doesn't.
I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.
Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.
A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.
I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.
I think, even when I was little, there was signs that I was an artist. I've always been an artist. My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I want the first impression to be the music.
My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
Music was important. Football was the easy part.
It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.
