We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.
We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless.
The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.
I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.
Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
Only sick music makes money today.
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.
I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense. . . I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better.
I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.
There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical. . . All instruments, musical or not, become instruments.
When I first met Benny Goodman he wouldn't talk about anything but clarinets, mouthpieces, reeds, etc. When I tried to change the subject, he said 'But that's what we have in common. We both play clarinet. ' I said, 'No, Benny, that's where we're different. You play clarinet, I play music. '
I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.
When music is presented which, however appropriate for other occasions, does not fit the Sabbath, much is lost. . . . The Spirit does not ratify speech nor confirm music which lacks spiritual substance.
I just want my music to be put out there, not shoved in peoples faces. I want to keep it relaxed.
I don't know what's going to happen. I take it day by day, playing my music.
What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.
