I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say... →
M.I.A.
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you... →
Yo-Yo Ma
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent... →
I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if... →
I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be... →
The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can... →
The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put... →
One of the things I love about music is live performance.