We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.
But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.
Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.
I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.
My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.
I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.
What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.
The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.
The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.
One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.
There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.
I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.
You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.
I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
