We’ve always believed in our music.
There’s a vulnerability to our music that attracts people.
We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.
Our music is consumer. It’s made to be played with, it’s made to have fun.
I don’t think our music has much to do with math rock.
Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different.
The stories in our music form a special viewpoint on the story of America in the 20th Century.
I despise lackadaisical behavior when it comes to our music. I mean, this is heavy metal music. You must be involved. You’re required to be involved.
Telugu and Tamil industries keenly watch Malayalam movies and are appreciative of the content, be it ‘Ustad Hotel,’ ‘Premam’ or ‘Bangalore Days.’ They’ve also been listening to our music. That’s how I was approached for Telugu films.
I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit – I love it.
I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
I feel like no matter what we do though, we’ll always have hip-hop and a little bit of R&B in our music.
Nobody does our music better than us.
Bollywood music is so international now, and our music has become global.
I’d say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band.
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred – by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.
Our music has gotten polluted today. We are straying far from our culture. Other people are trying to grab our culture, but we are very far from our culture.
Music videos are an especially fun thing to watch – I bet from the outside, too – because you learn so much, just like in our music… It’s really fun work.
I think hopefully we’ve got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.
It is true that if you hear our music described, it sounds unappealing. I used to laugh and agree with people when they said it didn’t make any sense.
Our music doesn’t make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that’s larger than people expect.
I’m glad that our music motivates people to exercise. If I had to pick just one song to run to, it would be ‘Violet’ by Hole. It makes me want to run.
That’s something Pentatonix tries to do in all of our music. We try to keep it clean so that everybody can come to our shows.
The whole idea is preserving the music and the art and not having us and our faces and our individual characters distract from that. That was the original idea, and now it’s really become part of what Tool is. It has allowed us to really concentrate on our music and our show.
We wouldn’t be where we are without people loving our music.
Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
We think it’s a blessing that we were able to bring our music to the world. That our music has not only inspired our communities but other communities. That’s one of the greatest things an artist in any field could know: that you’ve touched the mind of another artist.
It’s nice to have fans who want and need our music.
We cannot blame globalisation for diluting our cultural heritage and music, as our music is respected more outside India than here.
Everyone was surprised then that our music got such a foothold because they said ‘You’re so fresh-faced and wholesome.’
There’s a lot of spirituality and hope in our music that I think people are catching on to. It’s not punk, it’s not Green Day, not Offspring, not Soundgarden, not Stone Temple Pilots, not all of the other bands that are coming out.
Mostly, whenever I’m booked to do instruction, I just play a little bit and get people to ask questions. We’ll play some music for ’em, ’til somebody hollers out, ‘Play ‘Milk Cow Blues’ or ‘Play ‘San Antonio Rose.’ We play requests and demonstrate our music.
Most of our music is about how we perceive the world and how we try to persist as normal, average human beings. So our fans inspire us and give us a direction to go as musicians. And of course, their love and support keeps us going.
It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music.
Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith weren’t polite. They were against the grain. And that’s what we want our music to be: rude, aggressive… like real life.
With our music, we don’t want to just do one thing. We want to show all these different sides of us and all the different influences that we have.
To me, our music is like Jamaican stuff – if they can’t hear it, they’re not supposed to hear it. It’s not for them if they can’t understand it.
When we’ve toured with Skid Row and G N’ R, we probably turned a few people on to our music, but I get the feeling at one of those shows you might snag maybe 10 percent of the people out there.
I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.
I think, as musicians, our music should be who we are. Sometimes it’s not – it’s someone else’s. All heartfelt music and all honest music, it’s who we are. Of course, our upbringing has everything to do with it.
A lot of young people have been raised on our music, or rather had it forced upon them by their parents.
We really believe in our music, and it’s still heartening to know that it’s appreciated, and that’s what sticks.
Our music comes from our hearts – and it always has.
Without a drummer, you’ve got that sort of running, chicken-chasing, rhythmic thing happening with the banjo in the top end – it’s what gives our music a lot of its momentum, a lot of its energy.
We do this for the art, not the adulation. I’d rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don’t want to be adored for anything other than the music.
So, it’s a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.
We don’t want to categorize our music. Some people say you need a definite musical direction to give a group visibility.
The biggest misconception about us is that we’re just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.
I wanted people to say that our music sounds like Porcupine Tree, not that it sounds like King Crimson.
We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that’s when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn’t sound insincere.
We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.
We made history. Two Latin urban singers on the cover of Billboard is incredible. I’m proud of myself, I’m proud of J Balvin, our music, and of all Latinos.
You will hear ambient in our music. You will hear trip-hop.
It wasn’t slung together by a producer and a publisher. We decided we were going to take hold of our music and let it evolve organically.
I got to know E’Dawn when he was a trainee, and since becoming friends after performing together, we began dating in May 2016. We began dating after working on our music together.
The ‘trap’ sound is a sound from the city. We’ve always liked music with bass. We’ve always liked old schools with big speakers in the trunks. We like our music loud. We’ve always had a nightlife scene in Atlanta.
Our music, you either get it or you don’t. There’s no middle ground.
Rush has never been a spontaneous group. We may be spontaneous in our writing, we may be spontaneous as individuals in our day to day lives… certainly I think am and always have been, but I think when it comes to Rush and our presentation of our music it’s quite controlled.
Our music would probably be a really dark ocean, so you may not know where you are. It’s not so literal. It’s like a David Lynch movie.
I love being theatrical, we love electronics in our music, and we’re not afraid to put electronics on my voice and do all these fun things.
I have been working and composing music since 1986. Over the years, I have seen our music industry go through all kinds of transformation.
The snappy way I would sum it up is not everyone is queer, but everyone has felt different. And I think that is something that people can really relate to in our music.
I’ve never been interested in diarising my life through song. So much stuff has been done before. So many people have brilliantly articulated the pain of heartbreak or the joy of love or whatever. Those elements exist in our music, but I guess I strive to write about unconventional things instead.
Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It’s the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin’ on and stealing our music.
At the risk of sounding corny, the beach and the ocean are such a constant part of Los Angeles life, so that definitely seeps into our music.
