I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.
I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go.
The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back.
I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.
I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.
I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.
We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.
When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.
My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.
When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to he...
Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it." -attrib Frank Zappa
Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laugh...
In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, ...
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and real...
Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am a...
Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?
I want people to hear really exciting music played by the best, but in a context where they can clap when they want to, chase their toddlers, drink beer, take photos, get lost in the music and generally be themselves. And because a field has no rules...
