It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest wor...
I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.
There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.
We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.
I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.
This exploded in me almost more music than I could consume.
Music can help you through any kind of emotion. It can help you through a break-up, make you dance, or help you realize or understand something about yourself... and if I can sing a song and make someone feel those things then I will feel like I have...
I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.
I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with my dogs and write music and go out with my friends.
I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience.
When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.
Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.
Before I wasn't sure what I wanted to say, but now, I have had so many different experiences that they have given me what I want to get across in my music.
So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it.
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.
When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.
