Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.
It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.
Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.
Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.
Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.
There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.
A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.
So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.
Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.
So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.
Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.
In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.
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