Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.
At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.
VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.
As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.
The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.
I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.
I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else.
I'm just really waiting for the music to get cooked the right way, and once it's cooked, I'm going to serve that meal that everybody's been waiting for.
I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.
I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock.
I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.
I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.
