I played Jonathan Livingston Seagull in a musical version of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' in Austin, TX. It was pretty special.
Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music.
Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.
Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.
All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.
Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.
I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.
I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
What is true about music is true about life: that beauty reveals everything because it expresses nothing.
Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.
I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.
To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.
I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.
One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.
You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge.
