I was working a corporate job, but I really wanted to do music.
I started off in dance. That was actually my first passion, which introduced me to music, which people don't really know.
Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us.
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
Reading music is good for training, getting things done in a hurry. It doesn't teach you nothing about feeling.
Again, I'm used to speaking to a lot of people; I have a lot of friends and family, and I perform music and speak in front of a lot of crowds. So I share with people already a lot in my life.
It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own gigs and putting on a lot of our own shows. We were trying to get our actual music across, trying to make a connection there.
I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?
A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
As far as the music goes, I like melody.
Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.
For me, being in a car listening to music has always been my one spot to think.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
People come up to me and say, 'You changed my life.' I don't think I changed anyone's life. I think their life changed while they were listening to the music.
I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm and a call to action.
I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.
Music is my thing. In fact, that's what I wanted to do. I thought of myself as a musician. I had never thought about acting.
Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.
The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.
When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.
I find so much new music I didn't know about on my Sonos.
My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.
The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Obama getting elected.
I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.
It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.
I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
Playing music was always a part of my life; I don't know anything else.
I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music; you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic... fame is a terrible thing to have.
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
Like most musicians, I'm good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what we've done in the past.
I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
