I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of. . . our mental faculties.
Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.
Just because you have a hit doesn't mean you're good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.
I heard these stories [about musicians from my mother] and somehow music, it was my understanding what my father had done. I didn't know it was misinformation. It sort of inwardly in my psyche laid the template for music being affiliated with my father and my family.
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
When it came time to hire a guitar player. . . I didn't even have to think about it. . . Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard.
Musically, some of the acts that I've really been identifying with are: Fleetwood Mac, Roxy Music, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Earth, Wind & Fire, in general music that seems to have a lot of romance to it and a certain glamorous idealism.
If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.
I studied ethnomusicology for a while, but I don't think that really influenced my music.
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs for my birthday: Pink Floyd's Dark side of the Moon, the Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, and I can't remember the fifth one, but really different kinds of music. That's when I started to grasp it and enjoy it, listening to it. Then I started being in bands at school.
I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.
After moving to Los Angeles in the early '90s, I started looking into "music for picture" more seriously and in broader scope. My collaboration as a programmer and arranger with Graeme Revell exposed me for the first time to the full spectrum of film music, including the hectic demands of orchestral scoring and the power politics surrounding the finalization of any score for a major motion picture in Hollywood.
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No. "
Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.
Everything we do is music. " (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.
Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.