I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.
You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
I would do a Byrds tour or a Byrds record in a minute. I miss that band now. I've tried to convince Roger over and over to do it, but he's not interested. Music isn't something you can legislate into being.
No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.
My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.
I never listened to country music growing up.
My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song.
I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.
Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.
I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.
David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes the most magnificent music and he is a devoted and loving husband and father. I am so blessed!
There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.
Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.
MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure.
One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.
Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.
I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like yo...
By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and eve...
What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
