Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.
Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.
The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way.
Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.
I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.
I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.
You always hope for the best when you put something out and try to make the best music you can make, but you can't control what happens after that.
Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.
I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music.
I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here.
If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.
I do not knock 'Poppins' or 'The Sound of Music.' They gave me pleasure, and I know they've given a lot of people enormous pleasure.
I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played.
I think music is the only thing that I'll ever really have.
Music is the medium... how you use the music is different. Everyone use music to a positive light and effect. So it really depends on the individual and one's outlook. My music depicts life in general and the things that I see and the things that influence me, and such forth.
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.
I honestly just hope to continue creating music that people can relate to and connect with in a personal way.
When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.
Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.
Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other.
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don't feel one way all the time, so I don't want my music to feel the same way all the time.
We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.
Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.
We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.
World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
