I think everything you do in your life affects you creatively. Especially in music, if you do another thing musical..
I feel that I speak the musical language..
I almost got my degree so I don't need rap. And my family is the furthest thing in the world from musical..
I was a teenager doing teenager things, and now I have the honor of being on tour with musical giants Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull. I'm doing my musi….
We're living in a time when pretty much anything can happen in the music world. There are a lot of musical languages in which people work. When I thi….
Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books into forty-five different langua….
I'm very happy with the things I do. Maybe I'm just lucky I like to do so many things. I don't remember any musical job that I did only for the money….
The music is in the air. Take as much as you want..
You need particular note or rhythm in the symphony to be that minor key, or that sharp key or major chord. In musical terms, I try to hit the right n….
We thought of ourselves as musical terrorists at shows - were weren't biting heads off bats, but we wanted to annoy and confront people..
I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible..
Different musical instruments provide for different music..
I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes i….
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age..
Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes..
I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project..
But the difference between the little pieces and the big pieces - I'm not actually sure which are the little pieces. With some of the big pieces, it'….
The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously..
Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropri….
Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art..
Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount….