If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.
No one has bridged that gap between music and technology yet.
Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.
If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
For me, I like old-school rap music. There was a time when music was so, so rich overall, and the content of what people talked about was so deep on every level, song-for-song, pound-for-pound, and on radio, there was so much content. I gravitate more towards that type of music, to be honest.
I think music is one of the clearest ways to connect between people of all differences.
For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!
Before I really knew country music, I listened to pop, and I still do.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.
Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason.
People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.
People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.
People are bringing a lot more of that funk element into their music, you know, with Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson - that's one that you never thought you would hear something like that on the radio again 'cause it just sounds so much like the Back Bay and what they were doing with music back then.
The greatest music is made for love, not for money.
I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.
I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music.
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
I know that people don't listen to music much in the way when they'll put on a CD, sit down, have a drink or go on a car journey. People pick and choose and just listen to tracks. But when I make a record, I try to think about it as a 50 minute musical journey, so the mood is very important, as is the sequence of the songs.
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.
I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
Working out gives me the opportunity to let go and listen to my music; it's a big stress reliever.
'90s fashion is awesome. Best of both worlds - you had power pop, like the Spice Girls and Shampoo. But then you had Nirvana and Hole. And you also had '90s dance music like N-Trance, who kind of blended both.
I like 'Glee' because I love all the singing. It's like an hour-long music video. Those kids are so talented, and I love 'The Glee Project'.
Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.
Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive, but also to push things forward. And I think that applies to music. I think it applies to dance. I think it applies to a number of things.
In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.
