Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.
Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.
The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.
But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
Harlem's Apollo is probably the most well-known music hall in the world.
I'm the last person that wants to give away music for free.
I want to help promote Korean music around the world.
Most things in music go full circle eventually.
When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.
But I never listen to music while I'm writing.
I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music.
We use a lot of source music on some shows and none on others.
I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.
I've always had fun with music, but I prefer to listen to it rather than sing.
My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.
I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.
I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard.
I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.
I write music when I'm free and for no particular project in mind.
I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.
