Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.
Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.
I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.
Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.
I'm not a big music fan. Well, I am a big fan, but I'm not the type of person who buys stuff.
Sometimes when there is action, we just tend to avoid those moments with music, and have music in a separate part that allows you to dream and to make your mind up on where you're at in the story.
Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.
The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.
I come from an era, in my world, where you just had to define yourself as who you are and what you do. I happen to be an actor. I happen to be someone that loves to act, that also likes music, that also likes to speak, and that also has an opinion.
The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.
I know life is hard but we can always find hope in music and wash away our tears
People aren't hearing all the music
Music should be some kind of nourishment.
Lenny Breau was a genius - inspired and really loose. I loved how he used the guitar as an extension of his inner freedom, because, obviously, on the outside there were a lot of trainwrecks going on. But when you listen to him play, you hear what kind of guy he really is
It's a really good time for California right now in music.
Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.
