I'm massively obsessed with Frank Ocean, so it's always great when he decides to release music.

Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be.

I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.

I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

I think music is great at posing a question. It doesn't always have to give the answer, but it can open the dialogue.

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.

Pop music is always great for keeping the energy up, but it can get really old, especially after eight hours, just because there aren't that many great pop songs.

When music is crashing around us, when you hear the same five songs on the radio that aren't really saying much, we can always go back to great music. Great music always lives on.

I've never acted with my father, but we have always connected through music. He has been a great influence musically. He has always been encouraging about my music and is always happy when I sing.

When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.

My husband works in the music industry and he's always the first to know about great new bands, so I end up seeming really with it because I'll be listening to an up-and-coming band before everyone else hears about it.

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