I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.
I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
With the rise of the Internet, fashion did become part of the global entertainment industry in the last ten years, and will follow the digital evolution of the music or film industry.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.
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!
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.
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 music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.
I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.
I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.
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.
But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.
Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.
