Andrew Gilbert

I’m surprised Beyonce liked me. I met Beyonce!!

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about, but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.

I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.

If it ain’t fun, I want no part of it man. That’s the reason I play.

Django was the definitive genius on the guitar, and the depth of his gift was so spectacular.

We’re here to have a ball.

You have to understand the styles and it’s good to study those that came before us.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat.

I feel like….Music is the – it’s the answer. It’s the reason.

Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and imagination.

I learned to play guitar on my lying back while I was bed-ridden. I only thought to record the songs because sometimes I would I couldn’t remember what I had just done. Eventually I started singing, because I thought if I sang it that would help to remember even more. But I wasn’t trying to sing. And then one day-this is really weird -I just wrote a song. It came out at a rapid rate and I recorded it and I listened back to it and was like ‘Wow, it’s a tune’.

Music is a reservoir… of sounds.