Country music belongs to America.
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.
It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.
I don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free.
I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
The unifying thread through all these different aspects of music business is just my attraction toward working with sounds and designing new scary, evil, dark sounds.
I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to see what the day will bring, how I will feed that passion.
I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.
The experience of playing music at a young age really opens up one's mind to different melody in life itself, literally - like, when you've even played a recorder, or whatever, it becomes a lot easier to hear the beauty in a bird's song, or the quiet tune in a gentle rustle of the wind.
I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.
Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in the art of covering the voice, picking up a new key, in the treatment of the ritual chant, and overcoming vocal difficulties that lie in the words rather than in the music.
I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only the same notes over and over. Chirps and tweets and trills and burples. It's as if the insect orchestra is forever tuning its instruments, forever waiting for the maestro to tap his baton and bring them to order. I, for one, hope the maestro never comes. I love the music mess of it.
I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 68 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 68. And that's how I attack vocals.
Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.
A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.
I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.
Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.
Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.
Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.
