I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
My worst song is stimulating beyond words. My best songs are downright scary.
I have musical ADD or something, and I get bored doing the same thing over and over. I love different sounds, different influences.
Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.
I consider our music a catalyst, something that might spark a thought or a question.
I think there is great interest amongst the younger people in this music. I think that there is a lot of them that are looking for interesting situations and music that is stimulating.
I hear music and my feet just start moving.
I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing.
As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music.
When I need some energy in the morning I can put a metal CD in my player, because it gets me going! Classical music will send me off the road!
Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.
