Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.
If I practice Cherokee along with backing tracks would it be Chereoke?
From a young age I had learned to get over--to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve.
We all just meet up and someone's house or the studio and we'll just jam and we'll lock into something that sounds cool. I'll go home with tracks of cool parts and work on words. Everyone in the band has a job to do and everyone knows their job and we all do it really well. So, when we're writing, we can just look at one another and say, 'OK, go write this part'. It's not just one person writing or producing everything - everyone's working to product what we have.
When people want to built new tracks, they want to look at Silverstone. We don't want it built like that. It's quite embarrassing.
I didn't have any intention of releasing any of the tracks I made.
Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.
Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.
What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.
But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.
US policy toward Cuba [at the time] had two tracks. Track 1 was to assassinate Fidel Castro. Track 2 was to subvert the regime through people-to-people contact.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
I'm part of the Ipod generation. I got 10,000 tracks from all over the world.
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
