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Quotes by Musician

"To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier."

"I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend."


"Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about."

"I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard."

"It's really touching that we can come back after so long and care about making an album that says as much as this one does. And after all this time, we really do care about each other."

"The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters."


"Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think."

"I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians."

"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."

"They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer."

"I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people."

"If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world."

"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."

"Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form."

"Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating."

"I like to be sort of grounded with Fish. But, at the same time, I think probably what's unique about us is the way other dynamics happen, where I'll play off Trey for awhile. When we start playing a jam, I don't usually know what's going to happen, I don't have a plan."

"It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar."

"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."

"I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either."

"I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal."
Rap,

"I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first."

"The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly."

"Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them."

"My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up."

"Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name."
Name,

"It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it."

"These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next."

"I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character."
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