A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fing...
My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock sectio...
I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there's some connec...
I listen to a wide range of music, from country to pop to alternative rock, as well as Indian music. You know, what excites me are new ideas. And with a lot of the international hits - from Lady Gaga to Rihanna and others - you'd find excellent produ...
I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.
I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it...
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no...
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.
The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.
Music never goes away. It is always available, but we are not always available to music.
My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
The '60s were a time of great change in American music.
Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.
My mother and dad loved music, were very much into music.
And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.
There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity.
I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.
