Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.
For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.
In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.
I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the f...
Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My broth...
Musicians do not have to be believed in. We do not have to be trusted. Our Music speaks for itself without the listener having to know anything about us. Music touches people's emotions in a way that nothing else can. When people find a musician they...
Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.
To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.
Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.
I really love music, and I definitely love playing music and getting to be a part of music.
We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.
I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music.
If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.
I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.
