You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own music, then it's important to be really honest.
It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it?
I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.
First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.
I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.
I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way.
Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.
Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.
I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.
My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
The mini-Moog was conceived originally as a session musician's axe, something a guy could carry to the studio, do a gig and walk out.
Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.
My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.
The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.
As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.
I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?
It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.
Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement studio to help me with my creative projects.
