I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.
I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.
Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.
I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that.
In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.
Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizen...
Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy. Often, the lyrics are often quite small and focused.
The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.
I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off each other in terms of trying to engage the audience, not in a hammy way, but actually trying to be aware of the space that you are playing in an...
Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.
When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.
We made music that wouldn't be in synch.
Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.
I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.
We're also passionate about music and very critical about the music that we listen to.
