I took music theory for one year in high school and flunked all but one six-week period. That's because I couldn't read music, and the rest of the class was already eight or nine years into it. The teacher would sit down and hit a ten-fingered chord ...
What's important is that people realize that I can't be put into a box musically. I've studied all forms of music; I know probably more Jay-Z songs than the biggest Jay-Z fan. I've studied R. Kelly to the Isley Brothers to Stevie Wonder to Sting and ...
I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible. The last girlfriend I had, when we broke up, I remember being in a room for days on days on days with my mus...
Anita Miller: It's unfair that we can't listen to our music! Elaine Miller: That's because it's music about drugs and promiscuous sex. Anita Miller: Simon and Garfunkel is poetry! Elaine Miller: Yes it's poetry. It's poetry of drugs and promiscuous s...
Lester Bangs: Music, you now, true music - not just rock n roll - it chooses you. It live in your car, or alone listening to your headphones, you know, with the cast scenic bridges and angelic choirs in your brain. It's a place apart from the vast, b...
Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
My skills are musical, not lyrical.
I'm a huge electronic-music fan.
I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.
The public doesn't want new music.
I'm very inspired by past music.
I'm really passionate about music.
There's a lot of music that I don't like.
I've never loved listening to music.
The roots of Cuban music are in my head.
Singing is just a feeling set to music.
My heart and soul is still music.
I want my music to do the explaining.
I privilege the music over the lyrics.
English music is white - it evades everything.
I'm not trained in music.
