The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.
I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.
You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.
I would enjoy sitting in a rocker... listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution.
Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.
Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.
Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
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.
