Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.
There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile.
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.
For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!
For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.
I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.
Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.
Ultimately, at the end of it, it's just trying to get into that space where you feel like you're hitting the right thing and you're making music. And it feels intuitive rather than being counterintuitive.
I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it's all about the rhythm of that music. Dealing with the rhythm with everything. That's essentially at least my concept of what that group is.
The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.
Maybe if I knew music I couldn't do what I am doing.
In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.