You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.
Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.
You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!
In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.
Never lose the groove to find a note.
It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.
I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that's just my personal preference.
We. . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.
Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.