Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.
Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.
You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.
There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.
I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.