I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.
As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.
One second I'll be listening to country, and then the next I'll be listening to rock and then R&B. It's ridiculous. I'm all over the place with my music.
When I got out of the Nazz, I had it in my mind that simply to be eclectic was an important aspect of making music. It was something that I derived from The Beatles.
It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.'
One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.
No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.
Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.
My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.
I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
It is tempting to look upon England as a sort of musical Australia, an island culture inhabited by, and sustaining, its own insular fauna – musical kangaroos, koalas, and platypuses. That, however, would be very much to exaggerate England's musica...
Many today insist that music is amoral, that there is nothing innately good or bad about music itself. They say it is neutral, and only its use determines whether it is good or evil. To a degree this is true, but in a very real way music ceases to be...
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Evidently neither cats nor dogs, nor other animals that listen to human music, were constituted for the appreciation of it, for it is not of the slightest use to them in the struggle for existence. Moreover, they and their organs of hearing were much...
Music has the power to stop time. When I listen to songs, I'm transported back to the moment of their birth, which is sometimes even before the moment of my birth. Old songs, rock or soul or blues, still connect with me because the human emotions in ...
As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.
I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
