I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas
God created us so that the joy He has in Himself might be ours. God doesn't simply think about Himself or talk to Himself. He enjoys Himself! He celebrates with infinite and eternal intensity the beauty of who He is as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And we've been created to join the party!
There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.
It's very demanding to make up your own music.
Doom is thinking-man's heavy, something you climb into and not only discover the riffs and depth of the music, but also you also climb into yourself and explore the inner environment.
You gotta *be* country music - you can't just sing it.
The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.
When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.
You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church
I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale. " Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.
A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.
I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.
I put music on and I drive around town.
Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.
If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.
At the end of the day, Fool's Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There's a ton of great music coming out.
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century.
I'm just saying stupid, funny things when I'm hanging out on the TV show. When I'm making music I'm in a completely different zone.
I hold my time with the Black Crowes with the utmost respect and sincerest appreciation. It is a huge swath of my life's body of work, i couldn't be more proud of what we accomplished and deeply moved by the relationships people created and maintained with my music. That alone is the greatest honor of being a musician.
