As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.
I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.
In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.
Remember the music is not in the piano.
My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.
Music is another planet.
Music. . . is the shaping of the invisible.
[My music] is opposite to fashion.
Music is going to go in some direction that is entirely inconceivable now. If someone had been asked twenty years ago what direction they thought music was going in, they wouldn't have said sampling.
It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.
Music is indeed the Universal Language.
You gotta be, like, a professional hippie. You need to make music because you love it.
My music is not modern, it is merely badly played
Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.
It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.
Popular music of the last 50 years has failed to keep in step with advances in musical theater, namely Stephen Sondheim. But the two have grown apart so that popular music is based more than ever on a rhythmic grid that is irrelevant in musical theater. In popular music, words matter less and less. Especially now that it's so international, the fewer words the better. While theater music becomes more and more confined to a few blocks in midtown.
Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.
It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.
Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.
Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within.