There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days ...
Musicians play music because you love... I loved to play drums since I was five. It's all I ever wanted to do. Rock stars, or as we call them, posers, guys who want to just look great, dress great. They're not musicians; they're looking for the fame.
I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.
I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of...
There are plenty of millionaires who would pay millions to hang a Van Gogh painting on the wall, but hardly one that would have ever had the crazy nut over for dinner. I feel like the big companies are like that with musicians. They'll say, 'We love ...
V: [V invites an unknowing Evey to join him in setting off a bomb] I'm a musician of sorts, and on my way to give a very special performance. Evey Hammond: What kind of musician? V: Percussion instruments are my speciality.
I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder a...
Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.
I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.
Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.
Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.
I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.
It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.
There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.
I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.
