A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first ...
There are bands that I am friends with, who will invite me up on stage. Like Les Savy Fav, who have had me on stage, and I have played on their record. There are a couple of bands like that. Yo La Tango has invited me to play with them.
I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.
I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to New York and I did 'The Upright Citizens Brigade' out there. I had a two-man show with a guy named Oliver Ralli who's now in the band Pass Kontrol, whic...
I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I ...
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.
Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order.
My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.
Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.
I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
