Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.
Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money.
Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.
This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.
When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.
Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care.
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.
Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear.
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.
I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.
A love song is just a caress set to music.
I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.
I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.