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The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out, and people weren't diggin' the blues as much.
I can go to India and draw 20,000 people at a concert, and it's really because I've built up an internet presence.
I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism.
More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.
I know as far as I'm concerned, I'm getting really excited about writing, and I'm taking guitar and vocal lessons.
I seek out songs that I believe in. You have to believe it in your heart first. Then the listener will believe it.
What the hell is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and what does it do besides talk about itself and sell postcards?
There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.
Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.
I've heard people say all our music sounds the same, but it's usually just the people who don't like us who say it.
The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band.
Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'
If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all.
One thing that's great about the sax is that you can always get better with the horn and improve upon what you did.
There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.
I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.
I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.
I prefer a heart player; I prefer someone like a blues player, like Jeff Healey. Jeff Healey I think is tremendous.
You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body
There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.
I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.
I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business.
Dream Theater has never been a band that hit at a particular fashionable point and said, 'OK, that's basically it.'
I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.
Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
The Sex Pistols had it all - they had the snarl, they had the I-don't-give-a-crap attitude - plus, they could play.
Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me.
When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.
There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.
I remember the snow in Canada and the lovely weather in New Zealand. And I slightly remember going to school there.
You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.
I love all kinds of Indian music, and Indian food as well. If the chance arises for me to play in India, I'm there.
Music moves forward so quickly; music is an accumulation of knowledge, and musicians keep getting better and better.
I'd get another job before I would play music I don't enjoy. But then, I'm really not qualified to do anything else.
My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.
I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.
The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.
I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.
I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.
I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.
I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.
I often use triadic arpeggio forms within my riffs and solos as a tool to create rich-sounding, poly-chordal sounds.
The longer you live, the longer you hear the repetitiveness of things. So, it's hard to get excited about new stuff.
I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other things I could do.
If you can keep learning, you can still do your thing, and keep singing or whatever, and still do innovative things.
If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.
The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
We always record with the whole band. That's key to capturing the feel, especially trying to get a good basic track.
That's the thing, though: It doesn't matter how much you've done or who you've played with. Do you have the passion?