Quotes About Music

Humor is important. Nothing against bands that are always a downer, but the reality is - it just becomes theater.

We don't want Offspring-itis, Green Day-itis: you know, that thing where bands are all over the place at once, getting everything at once - major airplay on radio, major airplay on MTV.

The bandstand is a sacred place.

Set lists are like movies. They need a great beginning, a dynamic shift in the middle, and bang at the end.

In L.A., we listen to everything. If it's banging, it's banging - we don't care where it's from.

Whatever was banging, I would listen to it.

We've been appropriating in art since Duchamp, and we've been appropriating in music since the first person was banging on drums.

If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.

I didn't actually start playing the banjo until I was in high school.

I'll talk about the banjo all day long and the history of minstrel shows.

Azealia Banks - love what she's doing.

That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.

We're a bar band, so we know all the bar songs.

When we were younger, playing a bar or a club, we did what we did to get as many people to like what we were doing. I wanted the person in the back of the room to like it as much as the ones in the front. That's how I've always looked at it.

We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.

It's nice to see bands you could see at a bar finally get a chance.

I mean, I wouldn't sound very good next to Barbra Streisand, but I would still love to do a duet with her anyway. Maybe someone else can do the singing for me and I'll just do the lip syncing. How about that?

I like a little Barbra Streisand!

I always play barefoot. I can't play with shoes on.

I always like to sing barefoot.

I just want to make sure I hold up my end of the bargain. My commitment is to the people that listen to my music.

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.

I think about John Lennon all the time. What would John Lennon do? What would John Lennon say if he got this part? How would he act? I don't know, but he's my moral barometer.