If you do performance and music, it’s not performance as music.
If you do performance and music, it’s not performance as music.
If you do performance and music, it’s not performance as music.
Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean’s ‘Pyramids’ is on repeat. That kind of stuff with Frank Ocean makes me cry.
With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer… they’ve got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words… What more can you ask for?
If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.
You’re just sort of searching for this ‘thing’ and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don’t. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you’re improvising, at least the way I play, I’m trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.
There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn’t good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.
Music is really something that makes people whole.
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents’ garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they’re also practicing math.
In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I’ve always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.