My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my car...
It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then li...
I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.
In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.
I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun in a lot of ways because I wanted to take the idea that Jewish music equals 'klezmer' and expand it t...
I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.
A diamond is just a rock. A really expensive rock.
I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.
If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.
Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.
Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white.
Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.
Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.
What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.
Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.
I try to be a better dad and husband than I do pretend rock star.
The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.
I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star, I'm Future Hendrix.
