Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed.
Music is something that I have to do on a regular basis. It really is my life and I absolutely love it. It's a part of my day-to-day. So if I had to choose, it would be music. But I love acting too.
The thing about Christmas music is the recognizability. It's great.
I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
Where words cease, there music begins.
Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.
I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.
What excites me is doing shows now. I don't really get excitement from doing music because you never know what your music is going to bring. It seems like now it's all for nothing.
Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.
I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.
I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories
I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean, I go out and my music is roughly the format of rock and roll, I use the chord changes of rock and roll, but I don't feel I'm a rock and roll artist. I'd be a terrible rock artist, absolutely ghastly.
I'm a folk preacher. A folk therapist. A folk musician. I come from authentically that which is of my experience. Therefore, the music is strictly from the soul, strictly improvisational.
Music is part of God's universe.
Music is my life, is my strong point, that's my love.
Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.
Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.
Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
I do like people who are popular across the years and stuff like that, but I'm not a big pop music fan. I don't listen to the radio unless it's KCRW, like Booka Shade. Yeah, like weird music is what I'm really into right now. But I like anything really. There's just so much. I buy new music almost every day, so there's so much coming in that I don't even have time to listen to something more that twice.
Politics are not my arena. Music is.
Music is about your feelings.
And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
Music is a unifying force.
