I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.
I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.
It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.
To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.
In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.
A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.
Today, music is visual.
Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.
Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
I make the kind of music I like.