We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can.
I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.
I had always loved cartoons, especially 'Bugs Bunny,' and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing and painting, storytelling, not to mention actors, music, and sound effects.
A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.
I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't have to.
It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.
There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.
Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange tha...
My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.
Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough any...
Music is the soul of language.
I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.
My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.
Gary Numan had a huge influence on both my music and my style. He had his own unique fashion sense - that futuristic space style. It was out there.
I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.
I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.
A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.
It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.
