No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom.
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.
One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.
There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
