Without music, life would be a mistake.
I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.
I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.
When words leave off, music begins.
I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.
Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect.
Everything I listen to is influential in some way.
I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives.
Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.
Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.
The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.
Music is magic.
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Music brings unity.
At the beginning of each project, I like to create a palette of sound for that particular project.
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.
What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.
Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.
I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
As soon as you pick up a guitar, you're up against the legends of rock. The same goes with stadium drum kits and electric bass. Essentially, you're already in a soundscape that's very familiar and has a lot of established legendary material recorded using those instruments.
I think music is like little films, and it's nice to listen to music and really escape.
I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.
