My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.
To see the positive reaction to my music makes me feel good.
I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.
Golf during the day, music during the night - it don't get much better.
Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.
I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.
I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.
Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.
I think when I do things outside of music, I am always thinking of different things that are eventually one way or another going to come back to my music. I have to make sure it is all cohesive, as that's important to me as an artist and a person.
Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.
The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.
I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Writing is not work. In fact, there's nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.
Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.
The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.
I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.
Music really is our daily medicine.
My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.
If you're a music fan, you think these artists will be here forever, but you should enjoy them while they're here, because you never know what will happen.
Most of today's music is done electronically.
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer.
I never felt fanboyish about acting, about actors, about movies. I'm a fanboy with music.
A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.
On 'American Idol,' I felt like one of my challenges was picking songs because I've definitely been exposed to a lot of music. So when I went to pick songs, it was difficult for me to choose, but I'd always go to country because country music is so memorable.
My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.
I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.
