There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.
Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.
I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it.
I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.
I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole.
[Screaming out to Mr. Memory at the Music Hall] Richard Hannay: What are The 39 Steps?
I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.
Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.
A heart has its multiple facets of daily music. Respect a genuine good heart.
We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars -- glued together with magic and music and words.
I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.
Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.
Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high.
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
For all his claims to be just a propagandist, [Bernard Shaw's] writing has an effect nearer to that of music than most of those who have claimed to be writing "dramas of feeling." His plays are a joy to watch, not because they purport to deal with so...
Those slight words and looks and touches are part of the soul's language; and the finest language, I believe, is chiefly made up of unimposing words, such as "light," "sound," "stars," "music"—words really not worth looking at, or hearing, in thems...
