The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.
Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder.
I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who are really trying different things emotionally, different things musically, and on a mainstream level. And you have underground hip hop fans dissing it, for the simple fact that it's mainstream - not because what they're doing is whack, or what they're doing is not sincere.
Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.
My mom is a gym teacher, and shes not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.
You can't live in the past, musically if you do, you are dead.
Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.
The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.
The next film I have is called Miles Ahead, which is about Miles Davis, during a five-year period in his life during which he's struggling to figure out which direction to go musically and in his life. I play a record executive who's there to try to get Miles to collaborate with one of my clients. I'm excited to see that.
I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.
The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something.
Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.
I'm just a restless soul musically.
The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.
If Carlos and I were books, he'd be a Nietzsche book, and I'd be a Hubert Selby book - totally different mindsets. But musically, it all fell right into place.
I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots
I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.
Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.