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Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.
I love Stephen Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time. We see each other.
When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it.
Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.
Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.
Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.
The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.
Growing up on Long Island, I think Billy Joel albums come with your driver's license.
Just because something is very technical or heavy doesn't mean that it's not melodic.
I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12
The lute is tuned differently than the guitar and of course it has many more strings.
I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me.
It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children.
I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.
No one would barbecue their family dog. Why is a cow or a pig or a chicken different?
Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.
Some People Like a House with A Fire Place, Others want a House they can set on Fire!
If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters.
Solos are like sex, so it's surprising to me that there aren't more guys playing them
At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing.
The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.
I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.
It's not my personality to brag in any way or be pretentious. It's just not my nature.
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.
Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.
'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.
The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.
I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.
If you look hard enough for something, you'll probably find it even if it's not really
If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.
I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.
I think the origins of music have probably to do with magic and transcendence as well.
I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks.
To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.
You can never learn it all and I hope to continue my growth as a person and a musician
You're stuck in front of the microphone. You can't use your hands. I like to do things
But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.
It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.
Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.
Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.
Every night is a joy; you get an hour and a half of all these hits. It's a lot of fun.
Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates.
I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.