One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.
I'm against people downloading music.
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
My music is not modern, it is merely badly played
I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.
A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it.
I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.
I've never seen magazine covers and seen music videos and been like I need to look like that if I want to be a success. Never. I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it. And I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about.
Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.
It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)
I'm an emotional creature. I make music to express that.
I took some time away from the music industry. I've been doing this since I was 16 and needed some time to get to know myself as a grown-up.
When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music.
I always composed music as a little kid.
Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.
Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.
May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.
I want to help promote Korean music around the world.
Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.
