I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.
I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
It's always very special for me to work Chicago. Both of the record companies I was with, early on, were based in Chicago. The music was always huge there.
If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.
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.
