Music Quotes
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As a young man, my greatest inspiration was [flamenco singer] Camaron de la Isla, no doubt. That was the best time of my life I would say. I learned so much and matured in this period. Later, my collaboration with Chick Corea, John [McLaughlin] and Al [Di Meola] in the guitar trio was something very special. I was very afraid in the beginning how to play with these fine musicians. But I found my way and I'm sure their playing also changed my music a lot.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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I have a real issue with radio these days. I just am not into the current music.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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We've been working hard to have a career in music. We're happy we're having so much success. We don't want to turn anything down. We want to do as much as we can.
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I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.
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What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.
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I grew up playing music, ever since I was 10 years old.
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When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.
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I just want to keep making music and see where everything goes.
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When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
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I don't think shoving my butt into people's faces will tell them anything about who I am. How is that connecting to your audience? What is that doing for your music?
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The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
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I grew up with parents who really encouraged me to listen to as much music as I could.
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I think once 'Empire' hit, there was a lot of bad black TV that followed, because we work in the business of hit-seekers and copycats, so they're like, 'Oh this is a show about black people; this is about music, OK let's do a version of that.' And, of course, it doesn't work because it's not organic.
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A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.
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If you're going to call yourself a musician, you have to go out and make music.
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The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
