It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.
Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.
Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.
Music is the key to the female heart.
Acting-wise, I did a web series. I play a music agent in a series called 'Keeping Up with the Downs.'
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
Music is like a huge release of tension.
I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself.
I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.
It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validat...
I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about black music, about soul music.
I don't read music. I don't write or read music.
Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.
What appeals to me about an American music directorship is the involvement of the conductor with the orchestra and the community. I think that's a fantastic thing. In Europe, being principal conductor means merely that you're the person who does most...
We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.
Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
I feel like I've become less of a music snob and less of a snob about a lot of things because I realize I came off as such a bad person because of that.
I took the ET job because I wanted to stop traveling and they said I would only work half a day. Then I could work on music the rest of the day. They put in my contract that I wouldn't work after 1 P.M.
