As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'
I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.
Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.
My songs are like kids. I love them all. I encourage them to grow, to reach their full potential, and then send them out into the world.
Most of the music I've listened to or grew up listening to - a lot of it at least - is instrumental stuff.
Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.
The musicals on Broadway have not necessarily been true musical theater. I'm speaking generally, of course: I saw 'Spring Awakening,' and I was completely inspired by that.
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders...I think domesticity certainly doesn't make it easy to write, you know, because you've got a lot of distractions and I think a writer is always looking for distractions.
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?
I don't particularly fall in love with my own compositions, but some of them are decent.
Let there be songs to fill the air.
The dictionary contains thousands of words on Tamil music. I am not familiar with most of the words, but it shows the rich past of Tamil music.
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport that which is "grave and constant" (Joyce's epithets) in the mystery of our condition.
'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.
You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
I like film soundtracks. I like the soundtracks better than the movies.
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.
