This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Love is a friendship set to music.
I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.
I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.
In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.
Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture."
When we separate music from life we get art.
When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.