Music Quotes
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The great jazz radio stations have a duty to continue evolving their format just as audiences ask the musicians to evolve. How do you do that with a form of music that has 100 years of recorded history? How do you also keep it contemporary so you don't isolate your listeners? These are major questions.
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I am passionate about music and my work to the bottom of my very soul, but I also very much enjoy good clothes and some of the finer things in life. Rappers do, too, and perhaps it's one of the reasons I've been welcomed so warmly into their world.
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I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.
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Nobody can hear you read music.
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I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I'm the dude who never gets on the board.
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Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot escape it any more than the painter his primary colors or the architect his three dimensions.
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All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?
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I just want my music to be put out there, not shoved in peoples faces. I want to keep it relaxed.
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I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.
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In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.
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So the electronic fusion, as a songwriter, I find myself in different rooms working with R&B artists, rappers, so it was really hard for me to do just one genre of music.
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When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
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I bring to the music industry something that isn't over-complicated. What you see is what you get. But, I feel every performer has something unique to offer.
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The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.
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Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.
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A lot of what you do is about how you look. You're a good-looking guy who plays music, and you can't do anything about what happens because of that. If people say, "He's cute. I'm going to go buy his album," hopefully they'll like the music, too.
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I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.
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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.
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This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.
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Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
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Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.
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We make music for our fans, and that's what we'll continue to do.
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I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them.
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Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!
