The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.
To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs.
The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.
I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play.
You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.
All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a father figure for generations.
There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.
Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.
We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play.
Digital downloading of music has affected us all in adverse ways.
I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.
In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.
You seldom hear any young artists in country music.
I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around.
I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
I find that if I interact more, the crowd gets way more into the music. We also have a full live show happening, and I have lighting crew that travels around with me. We've got this Infinity Prism thing, which is lots of fun. It's an optical illusion device that we carry around.
Hoover's Music Store in Springfield, Missouri - I would listen to records there for hours.
I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people.
I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.
I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that mix is a lot of what has kept me going and kept people fired up about the music.
There's a time and place for everything, and my focus is music. So that's what I prefer to spend most of my time doing, and not talk about making music.
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.
I knew I wanted to do music at eight years of age. I listened to a lot of Motown growing up, and it got to the point where I started mimicking people - Michael Jackson or whoever. People started to notice I could hold a tone. The bug was always there.
As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.
I come to New Orleans so often that, one day soon, someone's going to declare me a native. I love the food. I love the music. I serve on the board of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.
