I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.
What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers ...
You see, most people play louder to get someone's attention, but getting quieter can stop a bull from charging.
You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.
Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosi...
A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.
Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.
People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.
Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.
Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.
I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.
I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.
My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.
People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.
My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
