Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done. "

Related Quotes:

" Music is all starting to sound alike in the modern era. Afro-pop sounds exactly like L.A. pop - there's no difference, no ambience, no real resonance. "

" I can't help what people write or think. If somebody thinks I'm a serious archivist, they're wrong. That's been a problem. It's a shame people take that attitude, because it affects how they listen to the music. It's a big mistake to treat any pop music that way. "

" The thing I always found about the gospel music was that it reached further into your being if you like, your mind. It takes hold of you - especially if you sing it and play it. "

" What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it. "

" Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness. "

" Nat King Cole - I listen to him a lot. "

" I've been wanting an ice cream truck forever. "

" Back in the early '70s, when Susie and I were first married, we had a little house that we rented, and we used to have parties. People would come, and they wouldn't leave. I used to get so tired. I'd put on the Stanley Brothers, 'Songs for the Good People,' and the house would clear in five minutes. It was not liked; it was alien. It was weird. "

" You can play as good as you want, but you have to sing from a place of living. "

" I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things. "

" Having my son on drums has made a huge difference. I can't stress this strongly enough, in terms of the groove space and style that Joachim gave me to instinctively play what I felt in a more free way, rather than feeling constricted. That's true on record and on stage. "

" To me, the Internet is a big scam. "

" Music is a treasure hunt. You dig and dig, and sometimes you find something. "

" On any given day, if I play the guitar, I can put myself somewhere. I always thought, 'This is the way you go.' It's like a magic carpet, see? "

" I like the idea that something happens to everybody who comes to L.A. - whether they are Mexican, Irish, black, or hillbillies. You come here, and you leave all your traditions behind. And since there's no traditions here, you just make one up. "

" If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future. "

" I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head. "

" People who love the applause should have it, but I don't care for it. "

" Promoters don't book you 'cause they like you; they do it 'cause there's good business to be done. "

" I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world. "

" The Woody Guthrie 'Dust Bowl' tunes were really fascinating. "

" It all started back in '69 when I worked with Jack Nitzche on 'Performance.' That was my first experience of doing soundtracks, and I've enjoyed doing them ever since. "

" Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten. "

" Santa Monica, where I have always lived, is not a town where you will find storefront Church of God in Christ churches. So, the whole idea of gospel quartet singing is something I never knew existed until I began to hear it on record. "

" I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music is the perfect opportunity to do that, because you can look at the film and then just let your imagination soar. "

" I toured around for years, but the road was always a drag for me. I never made a dime. In fact, I lost a lot of money - it was horrible. "

" It's crazy to make records nobody buys. It's just a waste of time. "

" Country hillbilly music I love. Always have. "

" I wanted to be a car pinstriper, but there was nobody to teach me how to do it. So I said, 'Music's good too. I'll do that maybe, since I can't work out how to do this pinstriping.' "

" I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get. "