New music is absolutely integral to classical music.
Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is.
Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.
Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.
I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.
Our pop scene is among the best in the world because there are 300 languages spoken on the streets of London, compared with 200 in New York. Our diversity is our strength.
I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops.
I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.
It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.
It's fun to be a part of pop history. Anytime you can be referenced in that respect it can be cool.
I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic.
I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.
My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.
Pop Fisher: I shoulda been a farmer.
I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.
If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
