Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life – one that requires much professionalism.
Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that’s being made all over the world.
Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level – and that’s never going to get lost.
Music’s always been really cathartic. It’s the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
When you expect anything from music, you expect too much.
There’s nothing to compare to live music, there just isn’t anything.
My personal style is a big mix. A lot of it’s pretty vintage. I love vintage looks. I’m obsessed with the mid ‘60s era, even ’70s, it was a good era for clothes, hair, music, and cars.
The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I’m always working on myself, and my music is the same.
The mountain music… is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.
Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
I would say think about the thing that makes you happiest, and do that. If it’s drawing or dancing or listening to music or bowling, whatever it is that makes you happy, I would focus on that, and you’ll definitely gain some confidence.
When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can’t portray when you’re acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.
Music videos are like tools that young artists use to earn respect from their peers, to ‘represent.’
All music is escapism for me, but I like the way that, on a good night, that sense of escapism can be shared.
I love music, and playing ukulele and singing makes me really happy.
Country music is the people’s music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, ‘Wow. This is fun.’
I’m not saying you can’t be successful in the music industry without Spotify. But when I look at the future of music, I don’t think scarcity is the model anymore. We have to embrace ubiquity – that music is everywhere.
I started EWF because I had a vision, and music was playing in my head that I wanted to bring through. What I had in mind was exactly what Earth, Wind & Fire became.
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
Music is for every single person that walks the planet.
I don’t care for the music when they’re talking bad about women because I think women are God’s greatest gift to the planet – I just like music.
