Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of.
Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.
Given that there was that era of girl group music and it's still very popular, but I think if you looked at the chart from that time you would see many more men on it. Because the industry, they were catering to young girls. I mean, that's what they thought their audience was.
I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.
We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can.
And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice.
I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.
I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future.
If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.
Music is a reservoir... of sounds.
The music scene is more competitive in the States.
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.