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Music's the biggest way of connecting people.
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
I'm not a person who opens up to people, and I feel like music is my way of doing that.
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
Writing music is something very natural... this is the way to communicate with other people.
Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.
My mission is to just keep creating music. If it helps people in some way, then I'm doing the right thing.
People aren't interested in music on Facebook in the way they are on MySpace, that's one of the big keys here.
I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.
Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.
Everyone communicates with music in a different way. With some people, if there's not sheet music, they're not playing it.
My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.
The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.
I was a music fan first way before I started creating it, so I still get giddy when I get to be around people that I respect so much.
Comedy is delivered to people in the same form that music is being delivered: by YouTube. People are sharing music and comedy in the same way now.
People don't think music to be a reliable source of income or career, which I will agree, in a way, because Bollywood is a very risky place to be in.
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.
I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.
I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.
If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
When I first became aware of music, it was probably the same way a lot of people do - even more suburban or rural people - from my older brothers playing music.
I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it.
The snappy way I would sum it up is not everyone is queer, but everyone has felt different. And I think that is something that people can really relate to in our music.
I guess the idea of doing albums in their entirety, in sequence, appeals to people. I guess it's the memory of being able to hear the music in the way it was originally presented.
A hundred years ago, concerts were far more come-what-may - people played cards, drank beer and appreciated the music. If we go some way towards restoring that spirit, I'll be happy.
I like to try to keep my music happy because it can make other people happy. And that's the way I feel when I listen to Avicii's songs. I get happy because his melodies are so happy.
I wanted contemporary music to be treated the same as the traditional repertoire - performed regularly by people who knew each other and the music. That is the way you convince an audience.
I think my music is a way of communicating very directly with people and with people's emotions. I try to make music that doesn't need layers of complexity or obfuscation to speak to people.
We just made music that we liked and that people liked in Korea, and then people outside of Korea began to like it - in the same way that we hear pop songs from outside of Korea and enjoy them too.
People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.
Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It's like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.
There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.
I can't watch shows like 'The X Factor,' for instance. I just squirm for the people involved, for the way they're being used. It's the cruellest, most ridiculous show on television. It's ruined music, ruined everything.
Makeup and fashion are a very blatant way of expressing who you are because it's the first thing people see. With music, it's more personal, where people really are trying to get into your head and learn about who you are.
With music, there's a conversation happening. You're hearing what's going on right now, with people's emotional states, in a communal way, and listening to that is really - it's both informative and so generous. It's like emotional news.
The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although people don't talk about it, there are a lot of issues of race determining musical categories of what's rock, R&B, or even folk. It ends up restricting creativity.
It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.
Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.
When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'