My music is Jazz.
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.
Start well and end well. The middle will look after itself.
What we hear is the quality of our listening.
The reason I write music is that I feel it’s a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.
Damn it, when I’m bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic: take it or leave it.
Forgive me if I don’t have the words. Maybe I can sing it and you’ll understand.
Music is the shorthand of emotion
My role as a drummer is as a team player to enhance what is going on around me.
I think the one thing that I’ve learned is that you cannot predict what’s going to happen. You can’t sit back and try to figure out what people want or leave it up to them to decide. When we all started in this business we would dictate to the audience what was great and they picked up on that based on the fact that we believed that it was great. But that’s all changed. What’s happened in the last ten years or so because is that the technology now means that everyone with a computer can make music and I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not.
Music activates the brain at a high level.
Learn the tunes by playing the masters, learn expression by playing yourself.
Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision I admire in classical music, but which popular music doesn’t have.
The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.
Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it’s about feeling more than being perfect.
What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.
