You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.
Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.
If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.
I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.
In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.
Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.
Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.
I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.
I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.
I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.
The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.
Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.
Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.
When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.
The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.
