There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and music gathering those are the instru….
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares..
I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no….
The popular song is America's greatest ambassador..
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?.
I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project..
I'm just trying to unite the western crowd and the bluegrass crowd a little more. ... I get to do that again on my new album, Tall Grass and Cool Wat….
People listen to the music and sense what it is about. Sometimes they know exactly what the songs are about, sometimes they interpret their own meani….
By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in..
I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone liked the sound, then fine, bu….
I find that in California I can't find guys that have enough energy. They play a little bit and that's about it. They play less. If I start a tune an….
[John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what I was doing musically or my instrume….
I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer..
Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies..
There's part of me that is a strict materialist..
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them..
I intend to be me. Whatever that is..
We've got to get in to get out..
What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves..
I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment..
I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric..