Music

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.

Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.

The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

If we start putting music out constantly where people don't think no more, people go crazy. We're gonna lose the love of heart, of soul. And if the world lose that, I think the world is doomed.

I'm all for a good slow song and I love all different kinds of music.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

I've always been attracted to music, and women like Aretha Franklin, Beyonce, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald and Tina Turner showed the path, in a way. They're all tough women but not afraid to be vulnerable. They made me feel someone like me could do that.

Some people say music's good for the soul and I believe that's right.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.

I really like writing music. That's kind of like my little hobby. I like that because sometimes you don't really have any control when you're an actor, over what you're doing next, and everything is kind of decided by other people. You're always waiting to hear from people.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

I owe a tremendous amount of gratitude to the LGBTQ community for embracing me so tightly and pushing not only my music, but also championing my personal growth. My creative work is heavily influenced by both my Florida roots and the vibrant LGBTQ community.