I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.
I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.
It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
I used to like the Jonas Brothers, but only because I thought that they were good-looking, not because I actually liked their music.
There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.
MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure.
I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.
I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.
I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.
The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.
Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.
Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.
In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second.
There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.
Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.
Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.
That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.
