I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.
I never listen to music when I'm writing.
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.
You can't save the world with music. But I can try. I have the same job as Bruce Springsteen. I have to go as far as I can with it.
I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing.
I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.
You know I used to listen to music a lot more.
Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.
In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'
I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.
Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it.
I like the fact that music is more abstract.
I didn't really want to give up music.
But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.
I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documen...
