I don't think I'd get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it's just not in my nature.
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.
I'm not a big music fan. Well, I am a big fan, but I'm not the type of person who buys stuff.
I would like to do something autobiographical, set to music. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to try.
Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.
I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.
I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.
I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.
People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.
While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.
I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step.
Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.
Thomas Dolby is part mad scientist, part nature boy, and entirely moved by the power of music.
