I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.
Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.
When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.
In my opinion, creative control means a lot, I feel like I'm really in touch with who my fans are and what they like about my music, and I'm able to communicate directly with them.
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
With the rise of the Internet, fashion did become part of the global entertainment industry in the last ten years, and will follow the digital evolution of the music or film industry.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.
The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.
I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.
