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I'm just thrilled to see people enjoying the music.
Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.
People who want to see things in stark dualities are not going to get much out of my music.
It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?
After every concert, I greet young people in the lobbies. And I see a huge surge of young people playing music.
A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.
For some reason, people don't want to see a girl onstage. Whether it's a girl or a guy, if you like the music, who cares?
Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.
We just dig Southern rock 'n' roll. It hasn't been represented well at all. So, we want to see the people in the South get their music out.
I like the purity of telling stories now because not a lot of people are telling stories in their music. I wanna tell my specific story: what I see right now.
I've largely focused on Japan my whole career, so I was interested to see how my music would be received by people of different backgrounds, religions and cultures.
It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
We come from a more alternative rock band background, and it's interesting to see the things that people think we should or shouldn't do since our music is a little bit poppier.
You see, I read reviews of people like Paul Simon, and they don't talk about the fact that he's looking old or whether he is fashionable; they talk about the music, which is how it should be.
I grew up listening to all kinds of music. When I came up, you would hear people like Marvin Gaye talking about Sarah Vaughan. You would go to a show and see Ella Fitzgerald performing the music of the Beatles.
When I was younger, I would see shea butter being sold on the street, and I was interested how people were still coating themselves in the theater of Africanism. You see that in dashikis and hairstyles and music.
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
People who like progressive music tend to sneer at the idea of a kind of punk aesthetic, and people who like alternative indie rock or punk rock tend to sneer at what they see as the pretentiousness and pomposity of progressive music.
At a festival, a lot of people came to see other artists, so you have to put on a signature set and performance: 'This is what I do, this is why I'm here.' At solo gigs, I'm a DJ - I'll play two-and-a-half hours, and not just my own music, also my favorite songs by other artists.