Musician Quotes

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.

It's easy to forget who you are.

When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.

When we made that album with Gary Moore, I was still kind of searching for the right direction for myself. Although the music is quite good the direction was like a box of fireworks that caught light all at the same time.

Unless you go forward then you are going back.

The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.

Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.

I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple as that. He was putting together this band and he heard of me in the context of doing this and he gave me a call. I jumped at the chance.

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members.

Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.

I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

On a personal note I want to gain more confidence and give back in any way I can.

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

I won't be able to live without my guitar, my phone or my boots on tour.

I own now, I think about 38 pairs of cowboy boots, or 37, something like that now.

I'm really good at solitaire and I can turn my arms in full circles.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.