I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.
It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.
The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
I'm hoping to knock down the walls and broaden the lane a little bit more for music that's pop music at the heart of it.
What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.
DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.
Don't worry. Chivalry has practically no appeal for me whatsoever. -- Neville Fletcher
Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change. - Esme from Sister Mischief
[God] is a kind of perpetual critique of instrumental reason.
You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art
I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.
I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.
People don't think of cello as a rock instrument, really, and we want people to know all the possibilities that the cello can offer.
