Pastoral Resources

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?

My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.

I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body - I'm just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.