If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.
The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.
If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.
Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.
There's only two kinds of music I don't like... Country and Western.
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
Back then, as a kid, you made a choice of who you liked, and it was either us or 'Take That.' And if you liked 'East 17', it showed you knew what was going on, you were clued up, had better taste in music.
We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.
If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.
I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it... I didn't want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
