I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.
I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.
There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.
I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!
I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.
I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.
People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.
Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.
I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.
Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.
There's nothing I like better than talking to kids, just sharing the music with them. To relate to them, you need to play songs they're familiar with.
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every girl's dream to play Maria, in a way, I think. That music!
It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all us kids had to be in the church choir.
I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud.
