I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to...
When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try to bring into my own music. Bringing in other musicians to collaborate with is a good way for me to test out new ways or make music that I m...
My goal is really to continue to make music. I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music, and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't th...
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin t...
Big band music, to me, it really has three key elements. First is the lyrics are really sweet, and they're just really family-friendly. The second thing is the music is jazz music, so the music is complicated enough to hold your attention for 5 or 6 ...
Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.
But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.
I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
I hope that country music embraces me because I grew up on it and have a love for the music.
I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.
Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
The passion for doing music, the passion that I have for going out and playing it live - my love for country music is back.
I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.
I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.
I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
