For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!
Being a New Yorker, I used to dance to Latin music. There was a place called the Palladium on Broadway. And Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez used to play. So I still have that in my blood.
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.
I don't really have hobbies. I paint. I write. I direct videos. I take photos. I'm a creative person. A normal day for me is doing all of those things. Sometimes I stay up until 5 A.M. writing a song because I make music. It's the same with writing.
I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we don't even know, and make music and whatever.
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
At the beginning, my folks were pretty upset with the whole thing at first, the music, the tattoos - but after observing the music scene I'm in now for a couple of years, they totally get it - they actually love it. They are so proud. My dad actually flew to Japan to see us play. My mom comes to the shows near home in Washington.
When words leave off, music begins.
I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.
To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.
Make your own music. It can be done.
You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
I make the kind of music I like.
Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.
The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.
I do listen to music. Movie scores, exclusively, because it's all about mood and nonspecificity. I love the way modern movie scoring is all about nonspecificity. You know, if I shuffled the tracks from 'Inception,' I challenge you to tell me which is which.
I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.
My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
I love to swim and listen to good music.
Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
I didn't aim at anything except good music.
The best way to express rhythm is music.
If you loved music, Lemmy was your friend, regardless of who you were or where you came from.
Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.
It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.
The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
What I ended up learning was that I had to do what I do well, and do it really well and say, 'Maybe there is no pop music that sounds like this now, but I can make it so maybe tomorrow what I like can be what everybody likes.'
I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues as dating, clothing styles, modern music, and use of family cars, listen to them anyway. They have the experience that you lack.
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
