Musician Quotes

We'll open for anyone, we are just looking to play.

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals.

We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming if you can't hear those who you are jamming with.

That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

I love playing for people.

I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add.

I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them.

I don't wish my career on anyone.

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.

This band makes sure that we have whole sections of stuff that are free form so that they don't know what we are doing next, that is the fun part of playing. You are playing something that you haven't ever played before.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.

I deep sea fish a lot.

I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

I love good, loud speakers.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

I believe in singing.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.