Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
Anything I do has to have integrity, so if you just want to make music, it's not difficult finding support. The hard part for a publicist or manager is making a star.
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.
If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.
I never think my music isn't easy until I got to teach it to other people.
I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop.
If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!
With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I'm in reggae.
For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house.
Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.
I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold.
Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.
People are getting ready for music that makes them feel happy again rather than being depressed at the way the world is going right now.
BMG has been an awesome partner throughout my career, and with New London, we plan to continue bridging the gap between soul, pop, London, and New York - uniting them through music.
At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.
I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.
VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.
My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
