Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.
To me, our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.
Acting-wise, I did a web series. I play a music agent in a series called 'Keeping Up with the Downs.'
I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.
I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself.
Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
I've always used music for my acting, and I do have a kind of a very personal play list that I create.
I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.
Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies.
I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.
Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a chemical reaction.
I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.
I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don't go to pull a guy.
Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.
Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.
My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.
My idea is that artists should make their music available for free, and fans should only pay for it if they really like it.
Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.
If you go to Tiananmen Square, or go to any public area in China, you will hear my music at some point.
