My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!
I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.
Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.
Nature has always been important to me. It has always been in my music.
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.
Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.
I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do.
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.
We tend to mistake music for the physical object.
You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music.
I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.
This exploded in me almost more music than I could consume.
Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.
