You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.
As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.
I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
Tony Stark: [to Bruce Banner] You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz? Bongo drums? Huge bag of weed?
People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before.
I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again.
A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.
As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.
MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.
There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.
I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.
So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.
There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.
I think musicians should stay off television generally.
A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth,
As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.
