It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private kind of music.
Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.
There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.
What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.
Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.
I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.
You either have fans who stick with you, or they don't. It comes down to making music that people connect with and great fans.
I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.
Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.
I saw this DJ playing music and saying things to the kids. They would answer him back, and I say, 'That's a great idea.'
Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.
Those slight words and looks and touches are part of the soul's language; and the finest language, I believe, is chiefly made up of unimposing words, such as "light," "sound," "stars," "music"—words really not worth looking at, or hearing, in thems...
The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
If you can strike the cord of consistency on the guitar of life, the world will dance to your music of greatness
I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.
