It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers like Frank Sinatra and myself we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written we go back to the greatest songs.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

Live music is better.

Music is part of us and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

The thing about my music is there really is no point.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it and rock'n'roll and it has an urgency to it.

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

I don't like to be labeled to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music but it's counter-productive.

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane before matches driving out to the court.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans but no critics darling.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development who love good music good books good pictures good plays good company good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

Music at its essence is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives the more memories we have of it.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

In our music in our everyday life there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong it'll sure help out.

Rock music is niche.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world in a self-constructed ghetto.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me but it has had an effect on my songwriting.