Phil Elverum Quotes

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

We've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.

We toured with Deep Purple a number of times.

I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it!

Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself.

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

I've always toured solo acoustic.

At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time.

My friends always had bands, and we would play together.

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.

Yeah, but on the U.S Tour we threw a new song into the set almost every night. Ofcourse, you can't do too many new songs every night as they've never heard it.

Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.

Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.

I do play drums when I'm on tour.

We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.

When I did the solo acoustic tour in 2010, I fell in love with that kind of performance.

If Trent Reznor calls and says he needs a drummer for his tour... I'm there.

I love seeing Tim Hecker perform because the experience truly shakes me.

We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.

We pride ourselves on being a touring band. We work very hard to give a great and unique performance.

There was one incident where we couldn't hear ourselves, so we were singing in an entirely different key than the instruments. It gets so loud at a Jonas Brothers concert!

The tour is like our bread and butter. You don't really get to experience the band unless you see us live.