My favorite music is when the sound is supplementing the message. I don't think it's dramatic; it's cinematic.
I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.
There's different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an inquiry, a question about how music and sleep fit together.
Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.
Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.
Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.
I think that music is still a mystery to most people. It kind of goes through most people without a specific thought. They feel the music, which is what's supposed to happen. They're not supposed to be curious about who wrote the music; they're supposed to feel what the show is trying to get them to feel. So if I help get that feeling across, that's good enough for me.
Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.
Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.
But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.
Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.
For me, the music is always speaking from the point of view of the characters. Rarely do you score an event.
It is not music's function to express rational necessities.
In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.
In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.
Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.
