top of page
.png){kind=small}
"We're not spokespeople, we're musicians."
Standard
Customized
More
"When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Both of my parents were musicians."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Our parents were musicians."
Author Name
Personal Development
"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us."
Personal Development
"What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time."
Personal Development
"At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right."
Personal Development
"I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child."
Personal Development
"What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business."
Personal Development
"We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band."
Personal Development
"Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that."
Personal Development
"It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that."
Personal Development
"But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it."
Personal Development
"So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out."
Personal Development
bottom of page