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What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.
Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.
I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.
As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.
In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.
Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring
I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.
I figured I'd discuss my views outside of partying. I went a bit deeper, and the music is a bit more mature.
My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.
Music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up.
My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.
I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.
Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.
I don't think I'm really interested in having a celebrity relationship. The music is the most important thing.
To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life.
My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.
A lot of my music is more about the possibilities of acknowledging something, rather than giving you an answer.
But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.
Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.
My music is always called "cerebral." It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy.
Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.
Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.
Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
The music is huge. I consider it a privilege to do what I do, turn people on to music and tell them about issues.
That's one thing that you notice in New York that you don't notice in LA is how much music is all over the place.
Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.
Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.
I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.
Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.
To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.
I had to agonize over my selection since our music is so rich and all the above plus many others have contributed.
Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.
The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.
Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.
Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.
Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.
I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.
I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.
I prefer the band situation. I prefer the relationship. Music is meant to be that way. It's meant to be interdependent.
The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.
"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.
Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.
Music is a creative endeavor so I feel the business around it should be creative, too. One size doesn't have to fit all.