Paul Rodgers Quotes

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

Thundercat, specifically, is insane. I'm always surprised at the things he comes up with when we're jamming out together. I gotta try to keep up with him and his ideas, be able to respond without speaking, and come through with some more music. He challenges me to keep it musical and not so computer.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.

I love to play my music. That's what my heart wants me to do is to play music, and I love doing that when I got my band and my crew and all those folks with me, and that whole thing cranks up; it's really something to enjoy.

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

As you know, I was a solo singer, something I just got very much used to. Turns out I'm quite enjoying being in a band!

I like to be sort of grounded with Fish. But, at the same time, I think probably what's unique about us is the way other dynamics happen, where I'll play off Trey for awhile. When we start playing a jam, I don't usually know what's going to happen, I don't have a plan.

We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.

Creating sounds together with other musicians is something I've always liked doing.

I love performing with a band way more than a track, just because it gets a whole new kind of vibe going and gets the energy up. You actually get to play off of the other people that are around you.

Our job as composers becomes easy when directors have a good knowledge of music and know exactly what they want.

One of the things I like to do is to try to jam with everybody.

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

When you play with Miles, you are on your own, and then it's you who decides what to contribute.

I think being part of Pentatonix has helped my arrangement style a lot, and that's helped me expand myself.

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

The thing with music education is that it is good at teaching technique, but not texture. You only learn about that from listening to music and experimenting on your own.

You've got to be able to play in the box and play deep.

I've always written songs. I'd come home from school and play piano for hours on end, just banging around.

Most of the musicians I play with - aside from the form and structure of the music - the interpretation is up to them.

Any time I get a chance to work with artists that make me inspired and learn new stuff about music - every chance I get, I'll take.

I didn't know how to play lead guitar. There was a freedom in not knowing how to do it.