Musician Quotes

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
The future is keeping you out of the present time.
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
What you see is what you get.
When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.
But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.
But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.
But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.
Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
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