I've always been much more of a guitar picker, but I began to feel forced into a position of being the epitome of a rock & roll guitarist. Originally, TYA wanted to make it without having to compromise to pop. It worked for a while, but after five or...
I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven't heard before. It's a very healthy thing to do. It's strange: unless you reload your iPods every couple of weeks, you're listening to and recycling the same music all of the tim...
I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.
There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.
I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.
I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.
Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.
My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!
My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll ...
I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.
We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play.
We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.
I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music.
When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
