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It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.
One of the most important results you can bring into the world is the you that you really want to be.
At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.
I've always been a big fan of Kendrick's, but it's different when you hear him on your own production.
I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.
I think it's helped me to have two unconventional parents, who have always encouraged me to be myself.
I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.
I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.
I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.
I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.
America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.
Rent is about a community celebrating life, in the face of death and AIDS, at the turn of the century.
'Rent' is about a community celebrating life in the face of death and AIDS at the turn of the century.
I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow.
Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.
I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times.
Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.
Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.
How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.
I certainly wanted my name in lights. I wanted my name on a marquee. I wanted recognition on Broadway.
I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.
Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.
When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
George Harrison became my uncle - not by blood but through love. It's sort of an Indian cultural thing.
We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.
No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!
Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?
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I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there.
I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
I needed to be able to hear the mix before you do - that's when I came up with the "peek-a-boo" system.
I read magazines and reviews. If consensus says something is good, I'll get it and see what's going on.
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
This project, 'Electronica,' is about working with people who are a strong source of inspiration to me.
Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.