I am not really thinking, I am just, working with the music. And people have asked me, why don't you say more, or why do you not have singers, or why don't you sing? I think it's because, if I would have words for what I am doing, I I could write. But I really don't. It's a whole different thing. And I think it's one of the beauty of instrumental music is that it can be background. It can be what people call "easy listening. " But it's really one of those things where it's as much as you are willing to give it.
Music should never be harmless.
I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
For me, my faith dictates everything I do, so no matter what I'm saying in my art, my faith is the driver for that. That's what I'd encourage people to understand as they listen to my music. It's distinct. My worldview bleeds through my music.
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around.
There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one.
The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it takes to create the sound of excitement, that's what you want to do.
Music keeps time and defies time, simultaneously.
Music is the framework around the silence.
As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.
I've had a wonderful life with music.
The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural.
The sweetest music this side of heaven.
This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers,. . . It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower.
Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.
