We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it’s because people don’t have the chance to be closer to it.
Music is subjective to everyone’s unique experience.
Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children’s growth and development, and in a parent’s connection with their children.
I wanted to first build a platform and then use it to shine a light on music/people that I believe in. This record label is for people across all corners of the world, to showcase all genres of music.
That’s what music is all about, vibes. That’s what makes people react and relate to a song, what makes it soulful.
I’ve never been married. I’m married to my music.
I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it’s motivational. I like old heavy metal when I’m outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.
The truth is hip hop has always complemented jazz and vice versa, but there’s always been this communication barrier that exists based on music to lyrics.
Time in our universe is always one way: no going back, no reverse. In music, you can reverse it!
I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.
People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music.
I don’t listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.
Everybody, no matter what vocation they’re looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It’s so powerful.
I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
There’s sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.
Music is an intrinsic part of life; therefore, it is important to transport different forms of artistic expression, science, and mathematics into compositions.
I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.
Music is the embodiment of my soul. When I play, I’m not performing a song: I’m becoming it.
Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It’s fragile up there.
Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways – water in general, water sounds – there’s music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.
