I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.
I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.
Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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.
You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.
As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I kind of accidentally fell into it and loved it. There was no reason not to - it was a great career.
Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.
If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.
There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry.
What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.
I'm not here to change the music world, but I'm definitely here to show what I can do and express myself through my music.
Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.
The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.
I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).
As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.
I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.
