“Music is the best means we have of digesting time.”
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“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.”
“I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.”
“The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.”
“I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.”
“I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.”
“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.”
“The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.”
“The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.”
“I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.”
“The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.”
“The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.”
“We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.”
“Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.”
“Music and the music business are two different things.”
“I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.”
“I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.”
“I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.”
“Music can change the world because it can change people.”
“You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.”
“Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.”
“I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.”
“We're not trying to change the world just music.”
“Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting it's something far, far deeper than that.”