My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.
My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.
Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.
I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.
My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.
My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.
As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.
The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.
For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private kind of music.
Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.
There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.
What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.
Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.
I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.
You either have fans who stick with you, or they don't. It comes down to making music that people connect with and great fans.
I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.
Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.
