What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.
Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical musicians belong to this place. Kolkatans do not go by fashion, but by passion.
I was a musical theatre kid, which meant you could always find me singing or dancing in the halls with at least four other people.
I'm not a huge musical fan. It's like when people just jump out singing; it's not real.
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.
There's always so much more that can be conveyed on screen visually in the expressions of people's faces, in their bodies, in their body language. And also with sound design, with music.
The Winans have been some of my favorite people, and Marvin certainly has a real anointing when he preaches and sings; he's a great interpreter of my music.
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.
Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.
I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.
I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.
I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.
I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.
After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.
Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.
Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
'm not saying I would never do acting again, because I love it, but there really is nothing compared to getting up in front of people and singing your music.
There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'
If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
