Quotes About Music

Chicago is an extremely rough place to grow up in. Especially if you're the only brother on the block that's into bumpin' Alanis Morrisette... So 'You Oughta Know,' I moved to Oregon.

I grew up in Oregon, so there was always a lot of that folksy, Bob Marley stuff. There was a mural of Bob Marley on a wall at my high school.

Growing up in Eugene, Oregon, there was everything from The Notorious B.I.G. to Weezer playing in my car.

I think that 'Psychopomp' is very much a Eugene, Oregon record.

Our band was different. We were still playing rock 'n' roll, but we had an entirely different sound: just one guitar, but an organ and a saxophone.

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.

My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

We've got an electric organ, a sax, drums, guitar and bass guitar. We sound less like the Beatles than most of the groups.

A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.

I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.

Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.

When I was 6 years old, I asked my parents for an organ. I don't have any idea why I wanted an organ.

When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.

I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church.

I would sit at the organ and just start making up things by myself - I was maybe 7 years old, which was too young to even know how to notate music. So I never wrote anything down, but when I'd make things up, I'd memorize them.

I used to think God only liked organ music.

I'm not a fan of computerised drums, likewise an organ can lose its appeal within minutes, but there are exceptions.

For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.

My collaborations tend to be pretty organic. It starts off with me being a fan first.

To me, skin is alien and kind of weird; it weirds me out. It's strange, but it's also really intimate and personal; it's living, organic. That's how I want the music to sound; I want it to feel alien and strange, but also like it's got a heartbeat, like it's got a soul, like it's not made by a robot.

If I get in the studio, it's very organic. I like to go off how I feel.

You can't really force kids to like music. I'm a firm believer in an organic fan base.