Quotes About Engagement

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.

More than anything, I want to just have the largest amount of people possible listening to my music. This is the biggest thing to me.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

People aren't hearing all the music.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.

If your fans are listening to the music and they can relate to it, they'll relate to it a lot more if it comes from us.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

I look at music now as just something to keep you relevant.

The music beckons to those who are listening.

My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?