Quotes About Music

There's quite a few people who said they couldn't play with two drummers, and I don't understand it. It's no different than playing with two guitar players, two trumpets, or two anythings.

There are very few people, like Mukesh and Mahesh Bhatt, Bhushan Kumar, and even Yash Chopra, with whom I have worked, who understand music.

Maybe the level of people you attract is what you supposed to attract. Maybe the few people I attract are the ones who know what the real is... There's that connection. That's what I put into my music.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

Sometimes with artists, I want to hear a few things before I buy the whole album.

Democratic foursomes don't work in the '70s like they did in the '60s, when there were fewer musical directions.

I don't know how it is for people who write fiction or literature, but for me, when I'm writing music, especially with this album, I felt compelled to hold up my end of the conversation. I want people to connect deeper with it.

My dad played fiddle as well.

I still play the fiddle every day. I'm afraid if I don't, it won't know who I am.

My father played fiddle and the accordion.

I wasn't really an old-time breakdown fiddler.

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.

'Fields of Gold' is my favourite record.

I am fierce, yes, but I'm serious about music.

I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.

Music is completely not reality. There's nothing about music that has any meaning at all. A lot of people disagree with that, but it's basically true. You can listen to a piece of music, and fifteen people will give you fifteen answers of what it's about.

Fifteen is around the time when my parents broke up, and all I was listening to was 2Pac.

I think 12 songs is too much to listen to all at once. When I buy a record, I get to the fifth song, and then I don't get to really hear the rest of the record.

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.

Sometimes I just wish I played in a band like Foo Fighters.

My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

It's a crazy experience for me to be in a Foo Fighters video.

I ask myself, does Slipknot want to play next to the Foo Fighters? The answer is no, because my kids don't want me to do that.

I had the Foo Fighters' 'Live at Hyde Park' DVD, and my dad had the AC/DC box set, and I used to watch them all the time.