I don’t really want fame and fortune; I just want to enjoy playing my music for people that enjoy hearing it.
The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful in Science, and all that is beautiful in Art.
The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones
The raw and natural sounds of Aero music don't subtract from it's beauty, instead it creates a rich soundscape for the musician to create within.
Figuring out the secret of the universe is like trying to read a brand after the steer's been made into hamburger." ~Will Durham from Crossroads, A Music Novel
Many people don’t realize the connection between music and literature and I’m here to tell them that it does exist!
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.
I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.
I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.
I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.
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