The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Music is too important to be left to professionals.
Music is the best way for me to say I love you.
Artists and the traditional record company model are at odds. The music business has notoriously taken from the artist. That shouldn't be the narrative.
I believe in music.
I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.
I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why don't we just play piano in a small bar? Why do we want to make an arena full of people happy?'
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
I do love country music.
So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.
I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.
I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
I still don't know how to read music.
As long as it's good music, that's what's important.
We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock.
As far as doing TV, I do think there's a big audience out there that could enjoy classical music, but they don't know how to find it, and sometimes by doing different things... crossover things probably make up about 5% of what I do.
When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.
I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.
But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
Do people have an idea of who they think I am? Yes, and that's fine with me. My music will speak for itself.
My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
Both of my books, 'Love Is a Mix Tape' and 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,' are about how music gets tangled up with all our other emotional memories. Since I'm an obsessive music fan, I'm always seeking out new sonic thrills.
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
I'm always eager to make new music.
Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.
My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since.
Why would you choose being bitter over choosing to make music? Being bitter is gross. It doesn't amount to anything.
I do know many a band out there, because believe me, we've played with most of them, who are together because they have to be. They might not talk to each other offstage, but they realize they can earn a living by going out and keeping that music alive.
I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
Well-written words are music.
The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.
Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music.
