I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.
I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.
Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.
It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic.
I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.
When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can.
We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.
Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.
We play happy music, and we make people happy. That's why they like us.
It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
