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.
I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.
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.
For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
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.
My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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.
I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.
