When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.
That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.
That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.
Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.
I would never do anything that makes the perception of country music worse.
Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.
I think everyone should feel like they can make music, they can create music.
I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.
I don't read music. I don't write or read music.
Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.
What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me.
I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.
I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.
I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.
Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is.
The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?
A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.
Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.