I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at it like a puppet show with a totally predictable story line. The only aspect I really liked was the music.
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Music is always a commentary on society.
Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.
If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go ...
I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.
Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.
I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.
Pop just didn't have enough substance for me. All this nyah-nyah-nyah, you know, 'Paper Tiger' and 'Hold the Ladder, James' and 'Crimson and Clover.' That wasn't music!
I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.
I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.
Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.
