So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.
I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.
Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever.
I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.
I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
I was asked to do a test commercial shoot for an Apple product which didn't mean much to me at the time. Some music player that holds all your songs. Sounded cool to me and I never gave up an opportunity to work, especially with the possibility of it turning into a national commercial. Coolest job I did in that time.
Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.
I'm a very impatient person. I love dancing, I love music, and I love eating life.
I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.
The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together.
I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.
Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.
Country music tell stories. That's something that I can relate to.
As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together. This happened in 1989. Since then, it's been a long road of educating myself in every possible way.
I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can hear people hanging out in the songs and doing a little shuffling. It creates a feeling of participation.
Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.
America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.
I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.
We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.
Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.
My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.
I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.
Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.
