Henry Mancini Quotes

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

'End of Summer' expands the way I want to express myself as a composer. It's a piece of visual music that has this narrative and conceptual dimension to it.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.

But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach.

Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.

When I went to see certain shows when I was a kid, they changed my life. They made me tap into that place inside myself that I was unable to get to, so music is that tool, that bridge, and that's the kind of music I'm interested in making.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?

The ultimate part that I want to play in my life is Jimi Hendrix, so I guess I'm drawn to music even though I can't sing or dance very well.

I just don't know artistically - because I don't write my own music - I don't know artistically what an album would mean for me. I don't know what I would want to say with an album that would be unique to me - something that hasn't been done before. I'm just not sure what that is. But I'm absolutely open to it.

I feel like I can see the music and can see how the character of the music actually flows. For me, that's music to my eyes.

I know it sounds weird for a 12-year-old to say that he wants to start writing songs, but that's what happened.

Since I was a little child, I always wanted to do music. That was my passion.

My music comes from my personal background.

I just want to keep making music and see where everything goes.

I sleep music. I wake up, and there's a riff in my head. Every step I take, there's a riff, a beat, or something.

Everyone's music is made of their own life experiences.

As a musician, it's only natural that my music mirrors my life.

I was doing some research and stuff and reading about Bowie. When he referred to his music as 'plastic soul,' I was like, 'That is the coolest thing I've ever heard.'

My muse has always been the piano.

It's incredible how much beauty exists in the world of music and how many artists you can really inspire with your own work.