My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, ...
I knew from the start that I wanted my life to be about music. I taught myself the notes of the piano aged three, and then I spent the next few years deconstructing chords to figure out how to play them. At 11, I researched online the sort of music s...
I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible. The last girlfriend I had, when we broke up, I remember being in a room for days on days on days with my mus...
A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that's available, the material that...
Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.
I played Jonathan Livingston Seagull in a musical version of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' in Austin, TX. It was pretty special.
I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.
I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.
I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.
As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.
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 saw this DJ playing music and saying things to the kids. They would answer him back, and I say, 'That's a great idea.'
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.
Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.
You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.
Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
Willy Wonka: It's a musical lock. [begins playing Mozart's 'Marriage Of Figaro'] Mrs. Teevee: Rachmaninoff.
