Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.
Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.
There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.
Music knits people together in some strange way. Same thing with food.
Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.
I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.
When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.
My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.
When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.
We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast.
Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.
I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.
I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.
The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.
Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
