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Well, the thing is I always listened to American music way more than French music.
I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way.
I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.
That's the way I always listened to music. I'd listen and copy it. I play by ear so that's easier than reading.
Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.
I've always had that feeling for the dark side, for the anger and the hate-rock. The music is just the way I deal with it.
I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.
Brendon has always been a fan of pop music, but that's such a broad term, because I guess I would say I would be too, but in a different way.
One of the struggles that I have with classical music is the way one thinks about a recapitulation. There's always this idea of themes, and I have trouble with that.
I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come out that way - is try to make challenging music that flirts with accessibility.
The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.
This is just the way it goes: there's always a cycle with music - it goes up and it goes down, it goes risque and it goes back, it goes loud then it goes soft, then it goes rock and it goes pop.
The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way of delivering music has changed, the way of listening to it has changed, the way of distributing it has changed, but it's always the music.
I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed a little bit - maybe of my own doing - and in a way where I felt like I was sort of falsely defined. What my music was being called wasn't really the music I was always listening to.
I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it's definitely had a huge influence on the way I write songs. I was always attracted to songs that had a brilliant pun or a clever turn of phrase, but came from a dark, bitter place. As a writer, I've always gravitated towards that feeling.