Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.
What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.
One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean that everybody's rural.
Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.
My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise.
Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
My children, Michael and Alex, are with our Heavenly Father now, and I know that they will never be hurt again. As a mom, that means more than words could ever say.
For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, 'You know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.'
I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the movies.
I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.
If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.
Kilgore: How're you feeling, Jimmy? Door Gunner: Like a mean motherfucker, sir!
The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.
I've never seen any ghost, but I definitely believe that there's some sort of something spiritual out there. I mean, there has to be.
There's such an emphasis on having a character be likable. I don't think it would be helpful if I worried about that. I mean, not everyone's likable.
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
