Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.
Music is split up now into little pockets.
These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it.
If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a tu...
People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.
I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside.
It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.
You have to be a strong person to be in music, especially.
Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now.
I think the thing about acting and making music is that it's easy to do both. I'll shoot a movie for three months, and then I won't have to work for however long I want to. So, I can do a movie for a couple of months and then come and do music for a ...
I was never really a nerd. I'm not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of stuff. I was in drama class, and I'm a big movie and music buff. And I'm into sports.
I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.
I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.
Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.
I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.
I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.
Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.
My music has always been strong in melodic content.
To do it always right, that is what music is to me.
Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.