As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.
I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.
I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.
My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people.
What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.
I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.
My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.
I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.
The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.
I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.
I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene.
Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear.
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.
