I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.
I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.
I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same.
You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music.
Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.
Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.
The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find t...
You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.
Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
I'm much more interested in working and getting on with my music.
I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof ...
I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.
I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.
