Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.
Stewart CopelandIn a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
Stewart CopelandMaking music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.
Stewart CopelandI studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to get into the music school there, so I studied communications and public policy, which actually were a greater engine for my career than a musical education would have been. If I had gotten into the music department at Berkeley, I'd probably be a timpanist in an orchestra right now.
Stewart Copeland