The Indian music market is very film-oriented, and any other creative music venture doesn't receive enough support. I'd rather do singles and put them on my website.
Shreya Ghoshal
Related I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other... KAILASH KHER 'Foolishq' from 'Ki & Ka' gave me a chance to work with renowned composer Ilaiya... ARMAAN MALIK If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rathe... JAMES HETFIELD Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market. BEBE REXHA I'd love to do an action film. I'd love to do a film based on a book series; I love to read ... KATHERINE MCNAMARA I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that a... DANNY ELFMAN I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically. LEE KONITZ I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to su... KID ROCK Very seldom do I write words and have somebody put the music to them. If I'm writing lyric and music... PAUL WILLIAMS I can't help other people's frustrations. I don't owe people anything. If people would l... DAVID GILMOUR I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up wi... SAMMY HAGAR The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do m... TAYE DIGGS I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure. BURNING SPEAR I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can.... CHARLIE HADEN I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the sk... A. R. RAHMAN Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. W... IMOGEN HEAP I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no e... JIMMY CARL BLACK A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of... ART BLAKEY I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other thin... EMINEM Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or... TONY BENNETT What people don't understand is that my dad isn't up on the contemporary music scene. He'... ALEXA RAY JOEL I'm not a jukebox; I don't play exactly what the crowd wants to hear - that doesn't make... ARMIN VAN BUUREN I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people w... BOB NEWHART We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough m... ROBERT STACK The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more ene... ALAN JACKSON The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market. CHARLIE HUNTER I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn... BRUCE COCKBURN I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't... AGNES OBEL What I do isn't black music; it's just my music. DARYL HALL When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challeng... BAT FOR LASHES I don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes ut... MICHAEL MOORE I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have... NICKI MINAJ The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial... CHRISETTE MICHELE I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home a... MOBY Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to ... HERBIE HANCOCK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the ... MIRA NAIR The possibilities are endless now, with performing, getting your music online, getting your own webs... DAVE GAHAN I decided to do whatever I could to make sure the business side of music didn't intrude on the c... TRACY CHAPMAN If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if fo... LANGHORNE SLIM If I wasn't acting, I'd try and be a footballer. I wouldn't be a musician because I can&... JAMIE BLACKLEY What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some ar... CHARLEY PRIDE I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consist... BO BICE Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people ... A. R. RAHMAN I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't ... SARAH MCLACHLAN I'd love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins, but if that doesn't happen, I'd sneak on to a... MARC WARREN I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My re... DWEEZIL ZAPPA Since music is so important to me, I don't need to put in any extra effort to do this; it just f... ARMAAN MALIK In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutt... ZUBIN MEHTA If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music th... DAVID GILMOUR I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instrumen... JON TESTER Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems fro... KAREN O You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you. ZAKK WYLDE I want to make the music that people remember, and it doesn't need a trend; it doesn't need ... TESSANNE CHIN I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot ... TERRI WINDLING It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bl... RICKY SKAGGS A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are ... DAVID LYNCH Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it. TONI BRAXTON I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised ... DANNY ELFMAN Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like... KENNY G I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don't ... KYP MALONE I'd rather make all my secrets public than have an image based on gossip. I'd rather put it ... EVE It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything ... CAM I've got more creative control when I do music. METHOD MAN Before 'American Idol' and all this stuff, I was obsessed with music charts, and I used to g... DAVID ARCHULETA I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I... TED CRUZ Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the bored... MARILYN VOS SAVANT I'm really into old school music when hip-hop first came out with Common, A Tribe Called Quest, ... RAVEN GOODWIN Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, t... MAREN MORRIS This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it. SAMUEL GOLDWYN I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I&... YUNA I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying t... BILL BRUFORD In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, ... BRUCE BERESFORD I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we progr... ESA-PEKKA SALONEN I don't care what people say. My music's, my music. ENRIQUE IGLESIAS If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I ha... MARTIN GORE I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I ... BETTY WHO I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I... BARRY WHITE I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it... MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, '... JIDENNA I think no matter how you think about your music, you're ultimately in the music 'business.&... MARY LAMBERT I don't think I'd ever apologise for music I make, no. THE WEEKND Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, ... ROBERT GLASPER Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever ... LEON REDBONE And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish so... POPPY Z. BRITE It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my pa... AASIF MANDVI I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to over... YAHOO SERIOUS I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to... IMELDA MAY Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but ja... BILLY HIGGINS I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up... CASS MCCOMBS There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formul... EDGAR WINTER The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century c... DOUG AITKEN Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to... MARC JACOBS I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn. NATALIE MAINES I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, d... MICKEY HART It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people&... DOUGLAS HODGE I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my... CARA DELEVINGNE I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tune... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III
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