I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.
I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.
I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
I love all the holidays and getting to see my family a lot during the fall. I also love the weather and getting to wear sweaters and jackets.
My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.
I'm big into fishing, but I've never been much of a hunter. I never was really raised around it a whole lot, so I never got a chance to do it a whole lot.
Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.
You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equatio...
What you do on travel holiday is what your memories are based on. People want to do cool stuff, and this is what will shape your entire experience.
I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.
I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.
I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.
I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.
It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
During the holidays, everyone needs a break from studying for exams and Christmas shopping. I wanted to put together a diverse tour that rocks in many musical directions but always points to Christ.
I rarely go into a shop on holiday, because fashion and design are what I'm involved in every day. I need another world.
For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.
