Quotes About Music

Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

I'd love to do a live album, like a little bit old school but still progressive, influenced maybe by more electronic music. I like everything, but I don't know anything about music. So it comes in to a lot of different ingredients. I love hip hop.

As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with it sometimes; otherwise, you turn it into pop music or progressive rock or something else.

My fifth record is, in many ways, inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth.

In all of my years in this business, I've always been part of either a progressive band or a metal band.

I worked out the keyboard parts on the progressive rock classic 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' and somehow managed to play it all on acoustic guitar.

I guess you could call my music progressive, pop, rock.

I began writing with Mike Pinder and eventually we went on to form a new band called The M&B, which later became The Moody Blues, what I would call a progressive blues band.

Music is progressive, you get out, you experiment with new people and you grow.

You know, as kids were weren't jazz musicians or anything. But, the circle of friends and the neighborhood I lived in, we were really big Rush freaks and Yes fans. We would listen to 'Close to the Edge' and 'Hemispheres' and '2112' - the more artsy, progressive stuff. Some of the guys were into King Crimson and Genesis and all that.

If we have to put music into baskets, then the progressive rock bands I fell in love with as a teenager made sounds that shaded into jazz, folk, metal, and in the case of the wonderful (and sadly missed) Jon Lord, modern classical music.

My music, I think, takes elements from a lot of different genres, progressive, electro but is still quite clearly defined as my sound.

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

The idea of a musical comedy was something we had had in mind for many years, but the project 'Igudesman & Joo: A Little Nightmare Music' has a history that goes back five years. I can say that this is the most successful project that we have ever done.

Honestly, I always think it's cool when artists name their first album after themselves. It's confident it just means like this is me, this is my project, here you go.

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

That's the way I started playing music: just playing guitar by myself in my room when I was a kid, and exploring the guitar and exploring the space I was in, with no project in mind.

Outside' was more of a personal project. This, the 'African Giant', is more of an African project.

Once, I got a chance to meet filmmaker Pradeep Sarkar. He wanted me to give music for his film but the project never got off.

Music is a very sensitive thing. We get musically attached to a project and it has the power to affect your mood.

I'm happy, so I just want to project that happiness through my music to make other people happy.

Aashiqui 2' has been a blessed project.

I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.