“Music breaks my heart constantly.”
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“Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.”
“I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.”
“I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.”
“There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.”
“In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.”
“To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.”
“The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.”
“I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.”
“Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.”
“Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.”
“When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.”
“I write music with an exclamation point!”
“Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.”
“For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.”
“I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.”
“In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.”
“I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.”
“Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.”
“Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.”
“You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'”
“I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.”
“I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.”
“I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.”