My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, who taught my mum, who, in turn, was my first teacher. Later I would travel almost 70 kms to the nearest town, Kota, to learn music from my guru Mahes...
I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.
Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
But this didn't like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.
The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done.
I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.
I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!
Good music is a king or a queen; when it visits a place, all rise to their feet!
If there are only you and the music in the room, it means that there are two persons in the room! Music is a live being!
We fought back with our music; it was the only weapon we had.
I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.
That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.
I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.
The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.
When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit.
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
