I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock n' roll. It's related to spirituals, and even ...
I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
Tony Stark: [to Bruce Banner] You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz? Bongo drums? Huge bag of weed?
People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before.
I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again.
A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.
But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you cr...
For me, the best part of being in a band is playing shows, all the raw energy.
We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?
Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.
Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.
I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.
In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.
I think we are looked upon as a veteran band.
A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country.
Every band I've come across has read more than I have.
I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!
That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls.
I don't have one favourite band. I like everything.
