Music Quotes
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I started listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young when I was 8 or 9 years old - I had siblings that gave me good music instead of the crap that was on the radio in the '90s.
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Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.
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Cowell gave me an enormous amount of 'how to' knowledge, including how to write a serial piece before I went to Schoenberg. Also an immense stimulation about world music. He was an absolutely fascinating man, because of his knowledge not only of world music but also of how to do different things.
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And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.
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It's difficult to explain exactly how I react to music, but if it makes me feel anything at all, then I'll have some kind of emotional relationship to it. That's what defines good music to me - if it makes me truly feel something.
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The movie industry can be tricky and occasionally creepy, and I have this sense that the music industry is just shady as hell. I don't want to be a part of it.
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I don't listen to much music on the go because I tend either to be writing my own music or wanting a break from the music around me.
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Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be.
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The trouble with a lot of music in this country is the radio stations. Modern rock - it's SUCH a stale format. As far as I can work out, and as far as we can work out as a band, the music put on these stations... It's not for the people. It's to satisfy the advertisers. It's completely reactive as opposed to proactive.
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I met some people who showed me a path in music where they were like hey, look, while yes, it can have to do with being popular and making money, it DOESN'T have to be.
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I try to get out of a lot of things by just kind of morphing and and shifting - and that's the way I got into music in general, by being really into free music and improvised jazz music, and stuff like that.To me, the most abstract thing that you could possibly do in music is make a song that's under four minutes long. It doesn't make any sense to me.
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You have got to stress the freedom of music to really branch out and be universal.
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My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.
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You have to understand that your music isn't for everybody; your job isn't to please everybody.
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A lot of my music is about love. And that, of course, is super relatable.
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The singer is always an ambassador of music.
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I feel like, a lot of times, when you have a specific sound that you want and are searching for, you want the right group to help you put the kind of music out that you want.
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I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'
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I've always stood up for country music.
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For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.
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Even as a little kid, I just loved to make my own music. So I loved singing, and I loved sharing it because it was a way to connect to people.
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When I try and extract what it is about my music that I do or love or try to create, I'm never aware of it at the time. I just make something.
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I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.
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I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.
