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It's not like we set out to antagonize the audience in any way. We're just presenting our music; it's really much more innocent.
We've met a ton of pro hockey players, got to know them, our music plays in their locker rooms. We've always taken pride in that.
I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
We cannot blame globalisation for diluting our cultural heritage and music, as our music is respected more outside India than here.
In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?
We're a band that's never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it's allowed us to be more open and confrontational in our music.
Our music would probably be a really dark ocean, so you may not know where you are. It's not so literal. It's like a David Lynch movie.
Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.
We have to let the younger generations take our music - and approach it the way they want - but just teach them where it all comes from.
We've influenced other artists, and when younger generations become fans of those artists and hear about us, they discover our music too.
It wasn't slung together by a producer and a publisher. We decided we were going to take hold of our music and let it evolve organically.
Some thought it strange that we incorporated synthesizers in our music but the equipment was there so we just figured out a way to use it.
I have been working and composing music since 1986. Over the years, I have seen our music industry go through all kinds of transformation.
I love being theatrical, we love electronics in our music, and we're not afraid to put electronics on my voice and do all these fun things.
I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
Whatever we were saying in our music had to represent something and really stand for something. I just wanted to do something with purpose.
It would be really great if our music continues to touch people. Once your heart is moved, it will develop to something better and positive.
When we first came out with our music, the gay question was always there and it was super important for everyone. But for me it was amusing.
At the risk of sounding corny, the beach and the ocean are such a constant part of Los Angeles life, so that definitely seeps into our music.
You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.
Music is a very communal thing, and it's been cool to see how different cultures have resonated with our music. It's been an amazing process.
We had so many of our fans tell us how worthless they felt before they found out about us and watched our interviews and listened to our music.
We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those people that are interested in good rock n' roll music.
To me, our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.
I think that for a lot of us gay people, we do feel that pop is our music. We identify with it and its iconography, and that's been a tradition.
Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith weren't polite. They were against the grain. And that's what we want our music to be: rude, aggressive... like real life.
Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.
I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.
With our music, we don't want to just do one thing. We want to show all these different sides of us and all the different influences that we have.
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
I despise lackadaisical behavior when it comes to our music. I mean, this is heavy metal music. You must be involved. You're required to be involved.
If somebody's going to represent our music live, I'd like to see it represented with excellence and spectacularly and with really great musicianship.
Lady Gaga reached out to us saying how much she loves our music, and we were just like, 'What?! She knows who we are?!' That's how mindblown we were.
I'm glad that our music motivates people to exercise. If I had to pick just one song to run to, it would be 'Violet' by Hole. It makes me want to run.
It is true that if you hear our music described, it sounds unappealing. I used to laugh and agree with people when they said it didn't make any sense.
I hate negativity in general. We, as artists, we pour so much into our music and put out something we believe in... it sucks that people tear you down.
Of course our music has a lot of positive messages and we try to reach out to kids our age or people younger because we feel we get motivation by songs.
I think by having solo projects, it allows us to expand our music range. There's a type of music and concept we can do as a group and do as solo artists.
We want our music to reach everybody, so we're using the Internet. Every kid today is online, and we want to make sure our songs reach every one of them.
Moog has been incorporated in a lot of our music. I know RZA has several of those machines. So, it did play a major role in a lot of music we were doing.
Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses.
Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.
We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.
Music videos are an especially fun thing to watch - I bet from the outside, too - because you learn so much, just like in our music... It's really fun work.
We made history. Two Latin urban singers on the cover of Billboard is incredible. I'm proud of myself, I'm proud of J Balvin, our music, and of all Latinos.
Paul Ryan's love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades.
We didn't really expect to achieve anything outside of the UK, and it just went crazy. It's just crazy that people know our music. We're just humbled by it.
We believe that with our music, we should be saying exactly what we think. We want to speak up for people who don't have a voice. That's what our music does.
Our music has gotten polluted today. We are straying far from our culture. Other people are trying to grab our culture, but we are very far from our culture.
We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.