About Leon Redbone: Leon Redbone is an Canadian/American singer-songwriter and guitarist specializing in interpretations of early 20th-century music, including jazz and blues standards and Tin Pan Alley classics.
I'm not interested in stirring anybody up through music. If you're going to stir people up, it has to be a thought process that has nothing to do with music. I see music as having to do with an internal thing. Something that stirs you up is external.
I don't think music should be played anywhere near politics. The two don't go together.
I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense of colors and mood in my approach to the arrangement.
Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is.
What I do and what I record only work for the moment.
I tend to notice work.
