I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.
Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.
The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.
I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.
I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to.
A brick could be used like March 5th marches in a marching band. And guess what, as the marching band director, I am the cement that holds everyone’s shoes in sync at the bottom of the Hudson River.
I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed u...
If I were in a band, people at my shows would fight for tickets—that’s how much I believe in love. I’d call my band “The Black-eyed Peasants.
KISS has always been outside of the borders of what other bands can do. Not that some of these other bands wouldn't want to do it - the fact that they may snicker or look down their noses at what we do is more out of jealously than anything else.
Before you could actually have face-lifts, they would pull your skin around the back of your head with rubber bands, where they would tape it. And then you'd have to wear a wig over it to hide the rubber bands. It was not the most comfortable.
Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in.
I produced the Buckcherry album and I just finished a band called American Pearl on Wind-Up Records. That's Creed's label. They're pretty rocking. Now I'm looking for another band to produce.
Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.
One month I'll be completely obsessed with Bob Dylan and the next Arcade Fire. I like early Elton John and David Bowie, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. I listen to a lot of American bands. But I like listening to new bands, too.
