Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.
As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.
Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it.
I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.
I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go.
The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back.
I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.
I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.
We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.
When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.
My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.
When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to he...
Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it." -attrib Frank Zappa
Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laugh...
In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, ...