I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.
It's time for artists to take their music back.
It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.
We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.
There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.
My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.
The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.
Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.
When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.
You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.
When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.
I run with music all the time. I cannot run without my iPod. I have everything. Teddy Pendergrass. Luther Van Dross. Michael Jackson. Outkast. If an Usher song comes on and it's fast, I go fast.
When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant...
I can't act without music very well.
Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.
I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's imaginations.
Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes p...
