Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.
I'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is going to explode.
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.
Not only am I putting music out there, I'm giving part of myself away.
In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone to hear it. To remedy this, I took to retreating to stairwells as a safe place to sing and write music. It was there that I wrote most o...
If you're looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.
I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.
I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing country music, because it's just a list of stuff: 'My pickup truck and my cowboy boots and my Levi's jeans and my girlfriend with t...
I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!
When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.
The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.
If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it.
The most important thing is that you like the music.
Music is about textures as well as melody.
People don't have fun making music all the time.
I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write.
To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and pai...
