My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.
I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at some point. But personally, what I signed up for is sharing my music. I've always said I'd rather have four No. 10 songs than one No. 1 h...
I think a lot of artists get confused when people like their music; they think that means people know and like them. I'm sure there's an element of truth to that, but to me, the music I make is what I'm most proud of. I prefer to focus on that and fo...
Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.
I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.
Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.
Music is universal; it's healing.
There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.
EMI is a proven leader in the emerging digital music landscape and one of the world's largest and most respected music companies.
YouTube provides a unique opportunity for all musicians to market and promote their music and directly engage their fans.
Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.
For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.
When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.
For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can quite genuinely make you just glad to be alive.
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
A hundred years ago, concerts were far more come-what-may - people played cards, drank beer and appreciated the music. If we go some way towards restoring that spirit, I'll be happy.
I think most people's record collections are more interesting than radio generally gives them credit for. You're likely to be as interested in the Grateful Dead as Palestrina. It pisses me off how compartmentalised music is. I used to be in a punk ba...
I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music.
Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence. There's an intense, dirty harmony, but there's a Louis XIV kind of elan and style, too. He had the melancholy DNA of our national folk h...
