The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.
I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.
As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.
So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.
It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.
I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.
You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.
The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot down a few notes, they have the idea that they can write songs.
Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.
What is very interesting when talking about electronic music is that - I would say that rock and roll is called the ethnic music born in America that invaded the world. Electronic music is certainly kind of ethnic music born in countries like Germany and France that has invaded the world.
I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.
My husband works in the music industry and he's always the first to know about great new bands, so I end up seeming really with it because I'll be listening to an up-and-coming band before everyone else hears about it.
As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.
I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.
The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music and blended them together, so it makes it interesting in that way. That's what I like about him.
You cannot have black music without something soulful in it, whether it's lyrically, how it's performed, or how it's expressed.
Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.
The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.
I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.
Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.
When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.
Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.
I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.
Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.
I feel pretty used by the music industry, in that my contracts are written in such a way that I don't get paid. And that makes me wanna quit working for whoever thinks it is that I work for them. But I've clearly got a job that I can't quit.
I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.
It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.
Music is escapism, it's entertainment.
I'm not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill.
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.
My family wasn't in the music business, but they loved music.
I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
