If you grow up playing in church, it removes a lot of the boundaries that other musicians might have, growing up with sheet music or whatever.
Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.
If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.
I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.
I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.
I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer.
Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.
My music library is all over the place. I've got A$AP Rocky; I've got Billy Joel. I've got, like, Celine Dion albums that I just worship. There's all kinds of different stuff.
Music is the key to the female heart.
You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.
I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.
I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.
I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.
Right from the start with music, I was like, 'I'm just going to do this, and I don't care about anything else. There are certain things you have to give up, even at 13, 14: your Friday and Saturday nights, having a regular girl, lots of things like that. I look at Amy Winehouse, and I think perhaps she just don't want to do it that much.
Before 'Lost Boy,' I was singing, doing six-second covers on Vine, working part-time and in school, but music was always my true love.
Music is like a really sacred, awesome thing. That first 45 minutes to two hours that you're on stage spending time with music every night is always really great.
I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
I'm not into just one thing; I always felt like I had to have my hand in everything revolving around what I do, whether it's directing videos, making beats, making music, performing.
Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.
I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.
I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.
I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.
I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.
I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.
