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What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.
Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.
Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker's next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now?
I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.
My collections are a reflection of my personal style and interests. All the textiles, fabrics and patterns are of my personal choice.
When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!
As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.
I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.
Sometimes the only way you could look at a person, and love them exactly the way you did before is to look at them with Brand New Eyes
I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.
We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.
I was in a party band in the early '80s, and we played Sabbath and Ozzy songs as well as Rush and Van Halen... all that kinds of stuff.
You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.
The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.
Rhinos are just fat unicorns. If we'd give them the time and attention they deserve, as well as a diet: They'd reveal their majestic ways
There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.
Mike Clark, who's a really amazing surfer, got me back into surfing. I surfed a lot from '82 to '86, and then I kind of started slacking.
With Metallica, it's hard. I tend to like it all, but the older stuff, when we get into the deeper cuts, it really excites me personally.
I went to jazz school. Not to say I'm a great jazz musician, but I studied under some great teachers. It was an important part of my life.
As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass.
I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.
It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.
Between 'St. Anger' and 'Death Magnetic,' we had, if I'm not mistaken, five kids born. And, of course, that would allow things to take time.
These fans are the reason why we're here. They're awesome and very crazy. They love Avenged Sevenfold, and we love them. Having that is rare.
The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice.
With the fretless bass, you have a different tone and different sound, a different dynamic to the instrument, so you can really make it sing.
You just go out and do the best that you can. I think people feel that, and they embrace it, and it's a part of what makes Metallica special.
I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.
I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.
Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.
You've gotta be careful because art is really important to most people, and you wanna respect that as much as possible. So I live by that rule.
It's a trip now that other bands are saying that they look up to us. In my mind, I'm still 18 years old trying to emulate Pantera in my bedroom.
I would choose no other band, given the opportunity, except for one that's extinct, like Devo. Sorry to my bandmates, but I'd rather be in Devo.
What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?
There's a guy I used to pay to work with me who'd call me 'kiddo.' I said, 'There's nothing that justifies you expressing that to me, your boss.'
When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.
'Some Kind of Monster' is a challenge, and 'Through the Never' is an extension of that. Even the album we made with Lou Reed, it was a challenge.
You've got to have fun playing. It bothers me when players don't seem to be enjoying themselves, even when they play an incredible improvisation.
I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.
I first picked up the bass guitar when I was twelve years old, and fooled around with it. By the time I was thirteen I got pretty serious about it.
How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
One of the things that I've noticed since I've been in the band is that, as players, Lars, James, and Kirk truly enjoy making music and performing.
People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.
I guess there are two things that make me like songs generally, of ours, and that is if they groove well, or if they have a jam that can go somewhere.
The Czech ease has become my saving grace for traveling! Plus,with its light weight and small size, I save thousands of dollars every year in airline fees.
Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.
With our fans, a lot of times, people get upset because maybe they didn't get what they wanted, whatever. But we always write the songs for us, number one.
I never look at failing as an option anyhow. I believe thinking you could fail is already shooting yourself in the foot and setting yourself up for failure.
At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.