When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.
We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.
When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.
This band is a real collaboration, and I'm greatful to anybody who can appreciate our music. It doesn't have to be a certain kind of fan or person or anything. I think there's a little bit of something for everybody on this record.
There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.
When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.
There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.
I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.