Paul Gilbert Quotes

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations.

When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.

In 'Heart of Gold' at one point, there were 23 players on the stage with him. And part of what's magic about Neil is the way he interacts with the other musicians.

Making music with people is a very intimate process.

I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing.

Find someone you can jam with. That's a big deal. When you play with someone else, you gotta work together to get the thing started and in time, working and in the groove.

I didn't think of myself as a lead player, especially when we did live shows, because me and Keith used to switch around all the time. He'd take a lead, I'd play rhythm. Sometimes even within one song. It wasn't strict and regimented.

When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good thing because it's just been a struggle for me as a bass player to play with someone who's so creative on the drums, and lately it's been really good, especially during sound checks.

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.

I love playing with a full band, but there's just like a different feeling up on stage when you're playing with a smaller group. It's easier to play off each other.

Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.

I think, in music, you're always hoping that you'll have a like-minded audience and that the music you like making will appeal to them, too.

I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

I have always needed other musicians to bounce off.

I can't see us getting into, like, long solos.

We have a certain bond that we don't have with anyone else on the planet. You just have that bond, that journey when you are in a band together.

I feel it's quite important to have a band but what's more vital is to be friends with the members of the band. If there's not a bond there, you won't be able to jam. Apart from that, it's also vital to have the same vibe.

In 'Boondien' I worked with a band where everyone had their own instrument to play.

Singing duets is instinctive, intuitive.

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.