The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it’s never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.
Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.
Music is amazing. There’s some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone… truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
I started realizing that music is the one area where I’ve always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I’ve already played or anticipate the notes ahead.
Music and dance influence my style in a lot of ways. Sometimes I go off to work dressed up like I’m going to hit the stage and perform.
I was hedging my bets with university. I always wanted to do music, it was just about waiting for the point when I could confidently say ‘okay, I reckon there’s enough momentum behind this thing to sustain myself.’
Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
Generally, I can’t really do much without music playing – even writing or thinking. Peace and quiet means putting on a song.
We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
I make my music to express everything I feel is necessary to communicate at a given time. Through music, I can express myself with statements that are more nuanced and more contradictory than factual details.
Music will save the world.
We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It’s really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it.
I love bossa nova. It’s the most beautiful genre of music in the world.
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don’t even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don’t like it.
That’s the beauty of country music – you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you’re on the road with big name acts, you realize there’s no easy way to the ‘Promised Land’ in this business.
Music is everything to me, and I’m most grateful that it’s all working out.
The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It’s part of the make-up of modern music. You can’t turn your back on the blues.
I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.
I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.
I guess that’s always the mystery of music. It’s like why does this song make me feel so grey or why does it make me feel sad or happy or nostalgic and so I’m most fascinated by breaking that down in my music.
If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.
Where I’m from is like ‘Hustle & Flow’ versus ‘8 Mile.’ It’s that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
