Words about music

Words about music (267): Robert Plant

Here Comes The Flood — Sat, 26 May 2012 08:10:00 GMT

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

Robert Plant

Words about music (266): Bruce Springsteen

Here Comes The Flood — Sat, 12 May 2012 08:11:00 GMT

I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.

Bruce Springsteen

Words about music (265): Ian Anderson

Here Comes The Flood — Sun, 06 May 2012 11:52:00 GMT

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

Ian Anderson

Words about music (264): Bill Bruford

Here Comes The Flood — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:43:00 GMT

photo: Michael Hoefner

I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again.

Bill Bruford

Words about music (263): Frank Zappa

Here Comes The Flood — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:32:00 GMT

photo: Heinrich Klaffs

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Frank Zappa

Words about music (262): Warren Haynes

Here Comes The Flood — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:03:00 GMT

photo: Stewart O'Shields

The fact that we know every show can be downloaded makes it a challenge for us. Most bands play the same 14 songs night after night. Our set lists vary drastically, and we keep a log of every set we've played. We try to make every night a different experience.

Warren Haynes

Words about music (261): Jorma Kaukonen

Here Comes The Flood — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:15:00 GMT

I have been teaching guitar all of my playing life. I really needed to do this. Where the ranch is now there were only prickly bushes and poison ivy. It has exceeded our wildest expectations for me and my blues-picking buddies.

Jorma Kaukonen

Words about music (260): Paul McCartney

Here Comes The Flood — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:26:00 GMT

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

Paul McCartney

Words about music (259): Bill Wyman

Here Comes The Flood — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:58:00 GMT

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

Bill Wyman

Words about music (258): Jonathan Richman

Here Comes The Flood — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:33:00 GMT

I'm not understood that well by the press because I think they try and complicate it too much. All you gotta do with this stuff, folks, is like it or not like it.