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A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then it will have a great ending.
I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write
By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.
Most people can do what I do - they can do guitar solos - but they can't do a good, hard rhythm guitar and be dedicated to it.
Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity
You don't know how a song is gonna do; you don't know where it's gonna live. You know if it feels real, if it feels authentic.
In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.
I really don't want to become a "member" of a band anymore. I really enjoy having total control over my music and productions.
A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.
People ask about love. Real love. I was never in love; the people around me didn't love me. They were just along for the ride.
You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.
I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.
I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'
Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don’t eat pets.
If the orchestra's not enjoying itself, the concerto will not succeed, with the players confined to using half an inch of bow.
I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.
Keith Richards has some sort of quote that says 'it takes two people to write a song,' and I'm of that school of thought, too.
Hip-hop belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's one of the most radical, revolutionary and reactionary music there is.
I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.
When Phish broke up, I made some comment about how I'm not gonna go around playing 'You Enjoy Myself' for the rest of my life.
Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.
We used to work with a promoter in Italy who used to book for shows with nine hour drives in between, so we got a new promoter.
I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence
It's really funny, I think to myself... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now! Some things don't change.
All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with overtime at the automobile plant.
I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger singing.
I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.
There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.
I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.
One of the advantages of playing in a club is that even with bass and drums, the atmosphere remains intimate with the audience.
Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.
When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain.
You'd find out more truth by just walking down the street with a musical instrument than by looking at any of the news outlets.
I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
I was exposed to jazz and blues and gospel and country music and rock, and I was the only kid I knew who knew about that stuff.
Looking at Capitol's performance over a 22-year period, I figure they were focused three years out of the 22 I worked for them.
It usually takes me two to three days to practice and videotape a new piece but sometimes up to a week for more difficult ones.
I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.
Some days are better than others ... It's been a long journey, but we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now.
Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.
Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.
A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song 'Yesterday.' Listen to the lyrics.
What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick walls. I play hard.
I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.
My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we have pretty heated conversations.