That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.
At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.
I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.
I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.
I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child.
The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.
The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.
I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.
I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.
I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it.
When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.
I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.
They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.
Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.
