“Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.” IfsYearsAbleCultureQualityMusicianAppreciateMy FavoritePopsHorriblePop CulturePop Music Author:Michel Gondry
“I can play the guitar, the dulcimer, the piano, and the drums. However, I am not a "performance quality" musician. Rather, I am a composer and a producer.” I CanPlayQualityMusicianPerformancesGuitarProducersPianoComposerRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty thugishness about the power-baseline style that's become dominant on the tour. Watch Agassi closely sometime...he's amazingly absent of finesse, with movements that look more like a heavy-metal musician's than an athlete's...what a top PBer really resembles is film of the old Soviet Union putting down a rebellion. It's awesome, but brutally so, with a grinding, faceless quality about its power that renders that power curiously dull and empty.” MenYearsLooksHas BeensFilmSportsInterestAnswersQualityWatchesStyleMovementEssentialsMusicianEmptyUnionsAthleteHeavyTennisDullRebellionSovietMetalsDominantSoviet UnionAbsentPublic InterestHeavy MetalFacelessFinesse Author:David Foster Wallace
“That certain feeling happened to me in a big way quite often with the first King Crimson. Amazing things would happen-I mean, telepathy, qualities of energy, things that I had never experienced before with music. You can't tell whether the music is playing the musician or the musician is playing the music.” WayFirstsMeanFeelingsBigsHappensCertainEnergyQualityHappenedKingsMusicianMusic IsAmazing ThingsCrimsonTelepathyKing Crimson Author:Robert Fripp
“It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.” LooksAmericaQualityTasteMusicianMainstreamGood TasteGeneral Public Author:Christopher Bollen
“I would say that the evocative qualities of music are usually put there in post-production in the reverb. It's really not much about the musicians as the engineering. It's post-production that's being done by the musician at the time.” DoneQualityMusicianProductionsPostsEngineeringBeing DonePost Production Author:Stephin Merritt
“In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it.” ThinkingTryingEarthQualityMusicFireSeriousWindMusicianDiedClintonTouchingSeventiesParliamentRejuvenation Author:Maurice White
“I just like dealing with scientists for awhile and then going over and dealing with musicians for awhile. They both have qualities that kind of counterbalance each other.” KindQualityMusicianScientist Author:Jonathan Meiburg
“The Western music tradition is mostly addressed to a public that has a critical mind, and judges the quality of the writing, of the interpretation. And I think it is a great tradition! It pushes the musicians to always go further, and to never stop pushing the limits and explore what can be done with sounds. And great pieces of art were born from that tradition.” ThinkingWritingMindArtDoneQualityJudgingMusicianTraditionWestern Author:Gaspar Claus
“I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the art better if you go through some struggles. To be an artist, in any form, you have to develop some sense of compassion and empathy - it's an important quality for everyone to have, on a human level. But I think, as part of our job, you have to be able to do that, so suffering, tends - if you allow it - to let you look on the bright side. It will help with those senses.” PeopleThinkingArtImportantHelpingArtistSufferingQualityCompassionStruggleMusicianEmpathyArt IsBe PreparedBright Side Author:Reeve Carney
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.” WorldWritingSufferingQualityHellMusicianDestroyingHell On EarthBad Writing Author:Tom Waits