“I like the process of giving control away [at the recording]. When you give it up to people, it's another intelligent organism that digests your information completely differently from how a machine digests information. It's like you're on a sailboat, and every time you can find out how to better adjust [the sail] to make it more precise. And it's interesting to see that the musicians have their own ideas. To use their intuitive power with their knowledge that they incorporate into the music. This is the moment you give away control, you give it to someone else's intuition.” PeopleGivingIdeasMomentsUseProcessInterestingInformationLike YouMusicianMachinesIntelligentIntuitionSailOrganismsPreciseIntuitiveSailboat Author:Pantha du Prince
“One of the things I always believed in was my dad came to America and he was a very talented musician, but he couldn't make a living that way so he had to support his family as an auto mechanic which he also loved doing. He was also such a great dad because when I first told him I thought I wanted to go into show business, his response was okay, that's interesting.” WayFirstsShowsWantedAmericaInterestingSupportDadMusicianOkayResponseMy DadMechanicShow BusinessAlways BelieveGreat DadAuto MechanicTalented Musicians Author:Denis Leary
“I think people who basically do one thing like Eric Clapton is great. But I've always enjoyed playing different kinds of music and playing with different kinds of musicians because I find that really interesting, like learning and working with Kip Hanrahan. There's a great conga player called Milton Cardona and he taught me a lot of the nuances, he's a Santeria Priest and so he knows his onions as it were.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindDifferentInterestingPlayerOne ThingTaughtMusicianEnjoyedPriestsDifferent KindsReally InterestingNuanceEricOnionsMiltonDifferent Kinds Of MusicCongas Author:Jack Bruce
“I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them "Our exercise today is not to use 'undo' at all. So, there's no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take. There's no sort of drop in, change that little bit". The session broke down in, I'd say, 40 minutes. It was impossible for people to work in that restriction any longer.” PeopleIfsLittlesSaidWholeUseTodayBitsInterestingImpossibleGroupsMinutesExerciseLittle BitMusicianStudiosBrokeSessionRestrictionNameless Author:Brian Eno
“I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.” ThinkingInterestingMusicOur LivesMysteryJourneyMusicianMetaphorLabyrinth Author:Sting
“If I had interesting things to say, I would have been a speechwriter. I think it gets to musicians' heads a lot of the time. Just because people like your records doesn't mean what you have to say is going to be interesting.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanHas BeensInterestingRecordsLike YouMusicianInteresting Things Author:Aesop Rock
“I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.” IfsRunningInterestingPayAttentionComedyMusicianTheaterRaisedPay AttentionClassicOrchestraViolinClassic Music Author:Larry Wall
“I can't remember ever being really bored. I find life very interesting, actually. I think some other musicians are always looking for something to give them an idea, but I find I have to reject 90 percent of my ideas because they don't live up to some self-imposed standard. That's also why I don't make a record once a year. I throw so many things out, and I have to have something to say.” ThinkingGivingYearsI CanIdeasSelfRememberInterestingRecordsMusicianStandardsPercentBoredRejectsBeing RealVery Interesting Author:Tom Verlaine
“What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting.” KnowsWantGivingTryingPlayInterestingCreativeProduceMusicianAtmosphere Author:Herbie Mann
“I think playing night after night is when you get a lot better as a musician because you need to add different levels of intensity and experiment a little bit with the existing songs just to keep everything interesting.” ThinkingNeedsLittlesDifferentNightSongBitsInterestingLevelsLittle BitMusicianAddExperimentsIntensityDifferent Levels Author:James Walsh
“We'd be recording and I'd go down to Greenpoint where Rostam was living and track stuff... It was a busy time. I felt like in general, I was just super psyched with the prospect of getting to be a musician, that it became a thing that I would think about more than I would think about my studies and stuff like that. I still did fine, but it was an interesting time in my life.” ThinkingStillsFeltStuffInterestingStudyFineMusicianBusyTrackInteresting Times Author:Chris Baio
“It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.” ThinkingWayInterestingPiecesWifeMusicianMy WifeCommentVery InterestingListening To Music Author:Paul Lansky
“I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because the audience is dancing or singing with us. That's the interesting part of the live show, actually, because everything is possible and everything can change.” I CanShowsInterestingAudienceStageMusicianSingingDancingArrangements Author:Rokia Traore
“We [with David Cunningham] did do Top Of The Pops. It was an eye-opener. I mean, one of the things that was so interesting - I've talked about this a few times recently, and people can't believe it - they used to do this thing called tape switch with the Musicians Union.” PeopleBelieveMeanEyeUsedInterestingMusicianUnionsPopsTapeCunninghams Author:David Toop
“It was actually the production group that ended up producing the show for us...Every musician, especially in the hip-hop community, you always make these show recaps or vlogs, and essentially what "Touring's Boring" was is, we tried to make our vlogs interesting and almost more like a TV show. That's how we got discovered by TV.” ShowsCommunityInterestingGroupsTvsMusicianHip HopProductionsBoringHipsHopsTv ShowsTouring Author:Mike Stud
“Since I started as a comic person then became a musician to me it was interesting because I have this really great, interesting fanbase that's really smart and energetic and uh how could I steer them towards a medium that shaped who I was? You know, steer them toward comics. That was really the goal, to bring a lot of readers cuz they were reading a lot of comics but most of them hadn't been reading American comics, they'd be reading manga sitting on the floor of a Barnes and Noble.” KnowsPersonsReadingGoalInterestingReaderMusicianSmartSittingNobleMediumsComicReally GreatEnergeticSteersCuzReally Smart Author:Gerard Way
“Listening closely to songs these days, there's a lot of lazy songwriting where people get away with it. I don't want to be too critical about it. But I also feel like I wanted to say something a bit different from just being a musician and singing about yourself. Ultimately, that's not really interesting to me. Even when I was a kid, I was interested in observing people and maybe making my own stories. That kind of reflects in my music.” PeopleKindDifferentKidsSongInterestingListeningMusicianSingingLazyGet AwaySongwritingAbout YourselfObservingReally Interesting Author:Steve Gunn
“On tour things go wrong all the time, I mean that's live music, that's what it's all about. I think one of the things I'm learning is that when stuff goes wrong, really brilliant musicians have the ability to turn this into something interesting and unique. I think good people in any sphere of anything know how to deal with problems, how to take it in your stride. We are learning this by touring, by being put in these positions when we need to focus and deal with it.” PeopleThinkingMeanProblemAbilityInterestingFocusMusicianUniqueBrilliantGood PeopleSomething Interesting Author:Joey Badass
“Any time having international interviews is a language barrier, you don't know how much you need to simplify what you're saying for it not to be damaged in translation. But culturally, there are some interesting phenomena. I get the feeling that the way rock music gets described in Germany, it is all like Rolling Stone circa 1975, taken to the 10th power. If you're a rock musician, you're part of the counterculture. Your music is like a critique of everything that is wrong with America.” FeelingsLanguageInterestingTakenMusicianMusic IsBarriersTranslationsCritiqueSimplifyRock MusicRolling StonesSome Interesting Author:John Flansburgh
“Poetry can explain individuals to ourselves, and change our attitudes, and help us see the complexity of the world, but the kind of poetry I follow isn't going to change public opinion directly. Other art forms can - if you're a TV writer, you have some interesting challenges, or if you're a country musician, somebody like Brad Paisley. But poetry not so much.” WorldKindArtCountryHelpingIndividualChallengesInterestingAttitudeOpinionMusicianComplexitySome Interesting Author:Stephen Burt
“Communicating with musicians is really interesting because everyone has their quirks and their strengths and their weaknesses.” InterestingMusicianWeaknessCommunicateReally Interesting Author:Flying Lotus
“Because I was a chemistry student and was never supposed to be a musician, I always felt like I was an outsider looking at music going "Why is this interesting to me? Why should I be doing this?" and I never felt like I was a natural musician. It came into my life, kind of, as a conceptual problem and I think all my pieces are, in a way, looking at some issue and sometimes veering toward an inside baseball model of classical music.” ThinkingKindSometimesProblemNaturalInterestingStudentsMusicianBaseballChemistryOutsidersClassical Music Author:David Lang
“Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.” WantTogetherBeautifulInterestingConversationMusicianIntriguingPlaying Together Author:Chris Robinson