I truly believe that listening to music can transform you into a better person.
English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense.
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Music is the only thing that I trust.
I just like music, bro. I listen to everyone.
I’m really pretty ridiculous about how much I work on my music, and I don’t look at it as necessarily a good quality. I look at it as a side effect of my apparent insanity. It is what it is, man.
It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
Music brings unity.
Music is the best way that I can communicate with other people.
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
If we just stick to one kind of music, our creativity is limited. We wanted to extend the audience for the cello, especially the younger people, and to show them how cool and how powerful and how diverse the cello can be.
The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read – those are important to me. It’s very important to me, and I don’t know what I would do without those things.
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can’t spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it’s from the 19th century, I know.
Everyone looks to an artist for something more than just the music, and that message of being comfortable in my own skin is number one for me.
There’s something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.
I think it’s hard when you’re a woman because the music industry is way more masculine than feminine, so you have to make your own space and fight for it.
I am always thinking about writing music; my wife is constantly asking me: ‘Is there any way you can turn off the music part of your brain for a minute?’ but I really can’t! It’s my form of therapy.
I like how fashion is becoming more like music. It’s more adaptive to young kids. It’s more adaptive to a more on-the-go lifestyle. More street vibe. But I’ve always been into it.
When I left politics in the early Eighties and started writing and recording, my idea was that I could have an influence further down into other generations. That Natives could come into the culture through arts and music.
A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It’s sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.
My music is really my therapy. I really lay all my feelings into the songs, and really just leave ‘em there. I don’t carry that weight when I’m going throughout life. I’m not sad all the time.
Songs like ‘One Love’ by Bob Marley – they stand the test of time – it doesn’t matter – so anytime I write music, I try to write in tune with an emotion, and I hope there are more times like that for everyone.
Standing at a Christian music festival in Asbury, Ky., in the spring of 1978, I gave my life to Jesus Christ, and that’s changed everything.
Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from it.
